Word: fascismo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King). It was the shame of the Savoy dynasty that Vittorio Emanuele III helped Fascismo destroy the democratic constitution his grandfather had upheld...
When the test of World War II came, the little people of Italy helped Allied arms destroy Fascismo. They refused to fight for a corrupt regime, to love the German ally. Their revolt, at first passive, then open, sapped Benito Mussolini's edifice, forced Badoglio to surrender...
...Rome, as the capital of Fascismo and now of Badoglio's government, is almost as crammed as Washington with governmental offices and employes. At least 500,000 government workers and 100,000 officials were in Rome at the outbreak...
...crusade against Blackshirt Fascists continued. The Party and its trappings had vanished (TIME, Aug. 9). Now Party "profiteers," the big shots who had lined their pockets well, were rounded up, their property confiscated. Marshal Badoglio, erstwhile partner of the Blackshirts, hoped thus to convince the people of Fascismo's demise. But the rule now was comparable in harshness to the rule in Fascismo's harsh era. Saber-wielding carabinieri cowed peace demonstrators and strikers in northern Italy. New decrees muzzled the press. The jails filled with a new batch of political prisoners. Six Socialists were executed as traitors...
...Rome radio called Fascismo a bygone thing. Premier Pietro Badoglio said nothing. But in the past he had spoken thus...