Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, 85, bullet-bald soldier who conquered Ethiopia for Mussolini (1935-36); in Grazzano Badoglio, Italy. Badoglio won fame and quick promotions as a field officer in World War I, was named army chief of staff in 1919. He cared little for Fascism but cooperated with Dictator Mussolini after he took over in 1922, became head of the joint chiefs of staff in 1925, resigned the post in disgrace (1940) after Italy's abortive Albanian campaign, later was called out of retirement to replace Mussolini (July 25, 1943) as head of the shaky Italian government, signed...
Thus, in his 495 documented pages, Levin attempts to relate the criminal folly of Leopold-Loeb to the greatest "crime of our century"-fascism and all the ideologies by which man justifies his crimes. Levin's sermon: if it is true that men are all parts of one another, then some part of every man is pretty terrible...
Sweat pouring down his face, Nehru tried again and again to get back to his speech. The well-organized students hooted him down. The Prime Minister abandoned his text. "You have no guts. This is fascism! Communism is its brother. Before all this, Gujarat is a small problem. This tendency is suicidal." The booing persisted. Nehru shouted: "You know what would happen if you did this in China? You know what happened in Poland recently? You want India to shape the way you have behaved? Juvenile delinquents!" Eighty-two minutes after he had started talking, Nehru gave...
This was serious. Revered Enrico de Nicola, a Senator for life, was the principal guarantor of the new court's integrity. Also, his resignation was bound to give rise to the cry that the Segni government was fostering "fascism." In dismay, Premier Segni hastily called his cabinet into session to throw together draft legislation revamping the public security code. Simultaneously, government emissaries, including Premier Segni himself, hurried down to Naples to try and persuade De Nicola to withdraw his resignation...
...college students must be recruited from the "workers' and peasants' class," with priority for the remaining openings given to members of the "productive intelligentsia" (i.e., "deserving activists," "deserving teachers of the people," "deserving inventors," college professors), and to such heterogeneous categories as "recognized victims of fascism," inmates of orphanages, cum laude high-school graduates. Although high-school grades are in theory a determining factor, they actually have far less to do with a student's chances than his family background and his record of "social" (i.e., political) activity. The final high-school oral examination is a simple...