Word: fascismo
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...Italian attache's pen raced on. It wrote that Senator McKellar of Tennessee (Democrat) called Mussolini "a bandit." It wrote that Senator Reed stigmatized Fascismo as "the Italian Ku Klux Klan." It wrote that Senator Howell of Nebraska (Republican) considers this settlement (totaling $2,407,000,000) "in effect a cancellation of the Italian debt...
...Fascismo made of the hodcarrier a god. Not quite. Gods have no need of earthly champions, whereas, when Fascismo was rocked by the Matteotti scandal (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.), the hodcarrier was perhaps only conserved in his godhood by the railway mechanic...
Roberto Farinacci, whose speech still smacks of the taproom and the railway shop, became Secretary General of the Fascist Party. His single-track mind knew and knows only devotion to Mussolini and ruthless suppression of his enemies. Within a year he has drawn the discipline of Fascismo as tight as a drumhead. He has "governed by castor oil"?introduced into anti-Fascist throats while anti-Fascist noses were roughly tweaked by Farinacci's Selvaggi ("Savages"). He has earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None...
...Outlived." As Farinacci returned to Rome from this supreme triumph, he performed an act which strikingly demonstrates the depths of his loyalty to Mussolini, the heights to which he carries the ideal of loyalty to Fascismo. He resigned last week as Secretary General to the Fascist party. To the press he said: "I have outlived my usefulness to Fascismo as Secretary General...
...suspicion flamed toward Mussolini and was barely stifled without blowing up the Fascist party. The entire Aventine Opposition walked out of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and has not returned* as a protest against both the crime itself and the ruthless methods of suppressing the scandal adopted by Fascismo. Not long ago (TIME, Oct. 19), Premier Mussolini cried: "When the slayers of Matteotti are tried, the trial will be Fascismo's greatest triumph!" The trial (TIME, March 29) ended last week with the conviction of three men for the "unintentional murder" of Matteotti. They were sentenced...