Word: fascismo
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...Falange (Phalanx-Spain's official Fascist party, modeled on Fascismo and National Socialism). Its violently pro-German extremists would be the country's Fifth Column if the Nazis pushed in. Franco himself is the Party's titular head...
Travel-worn leather bags stood ready last week in a modest Manhattan apartment. Count Carlo Sforza, urbane, white-bearded, was about to begin a long trip home. Sixteen years ago he and his family were hounded into exile by Fascismo's bullyboys, who burned down their villa and might have murdered them. Now, at 70, Italy's distinguished liberal refugee had been granted Allied permission to go home...
...Sforza, the aristocrat, 17th count of a venerable line, was Italian Ambassador in Paris. He had reached that post after diplomatic service from London to China and a spell as Foreign Minister. With the Blackshirt government he would have no truck. He resigned as Ambassador, returned to Rome, denounced Fascismo and its dangerous "adventurers" from his seat in the Senate. The Duce said that he could have twelve bullets put into Count Sforza. The Count replied that political murder was inadvisable. But the time came, during the aftermath of the Matteotti murder, to go abroad...
From exile-in France, then England, finally the U.S.-Carlo Sforza crusaded against Benito Mussolini ("a demagogue, a charlatan, a cheap egocentric, a quisling of Hitler") and Fascismo ("an artificial and corrupt house of cards which will fall some day in a few hours"). A patient, humane man, with historical perspective, he believed that his nation had strayed into its most tragic hour, but that in good time the countrymen of Dante and Galileo, Michelangelo and Mazzini, Verdi and Ferrero, would come out all right. "They are grand, they are grand!" he said as the little people of Italy turned...
...Mussolini had movingly phoned the Führer after his release. The Berlin claim fitted into Adolf Hitler's unfolding scheme for Italy under Nazi control. That scheme called for a puppet Fascist regime, set up in Mussolini's name but probably under direction of one of Fascismo's toughest big shots, ex-Party Secretary Roberto Farinacci, who has escaped to Germany...