Word: fascismo
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...Time Has Come. Some Sicilians warned their visitors that Fascismo on the mainland was in much tighter control than it was on the island. If so, Fascismo in Italy was certainly worried. Fascist Editor Roberto Farinacci cried out against nincompoop generals and flabby dignitaries in the Mussolini hierarchy. The people were told that Germany could not spare planes or men for Italy from the Russian front. Mussolini extended the zone of military rule to the two southern provinces opposite Sicily...
...much, obsessed him in the '30s. For Social Credit he became a fiery if incoherent apostle. "Usury" he attacked in sumptuous and contemptuous cantos. He fell for the Fasces that seemed to mean Order. In his crotchety isolation he desired an audience; his own country ignored him; Fascismo flattered him. His half-bantering egomania became huge. When World War II began, chafing at new difficulties of communication, he wrote: "Am inconvenienced by shutdown of London...
...well-wisher thought he was driving a smart wedge between Fascismo and King, he had another think coming fast. Both in Commons and at Whitehall Britons who know King Victor Emmanuel to be probably the most useless man in Europe made a great fuss. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information, which have been closing in on BBC, saw their chance. Tightened last week was Government control of all broadcasts...
Scipio Africanus (Italian) is as magnificent a bit of Fascismo as has come out of Italy since Marcus Cato rose to tell the Roman Senate: "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be liquidated). It is also as spectacular a show as the movies have seen since the Italian Quo Vadis? first made the U. S. spectacle-conscious...
...Duce del fascismo, Benito Mussolini's exact title, means ''The Leader of the Fascist Party...