Word: fascismo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge, high-ceilinged Renaissance offices in the Palazzo Venezia last week, Il Duce summoned and addressed the Directorate of Fascismo. The session was secret, but a summary of what Premier Mussolini said was issued. In substance he pictured Pope Pius as surrounded by a Vatican camarilla who concealed from His Holiness every fact favorable to Fascism and furthermore concealed from the Holy Father that Azione Cattolica was plotting against the State...
...salary-cropped Senators thought so, they did not say so. There of course had to be some goat to blame for this sizable deficit. Prime Minister Mussolini found a handy one in the U. S. The Wall Street crash of 1929, blamed for so much, was apparently responsible for Fascismo's troubles as well. Said...
...Their phrase [attributed to Mussolini] that 'Fascismo is not an article for exportation' is not mine. It is too banal. It was adopted for the readers of newspapers who in order to understand anything need to have it translated into terms of commercial jargon. In any case it must now be amended...
...Today I affirm that the idea, doctrine and spirit of Fascismo are universal. It is Italian in its particular institutions, but it is universal in spirit; nor could it be otherwise, for spirit is universal by its very nature. It is therefore possible to foresee a Fascist Europe which will model its institutions on Fascist doctrine and practice, a Europe which will solve in the Fascist way the problems of the modern State of the twentieth century...
...salute in public for the first time: on the balcony of the Royal Palace immediately after his return from Belgium. He neutralized this on his wedding day by standing rigidly at attention while the Royal March was played, turning his back, leaving the Palace balcony as the band blared Fascismo's Giovinezza...