Word: fascista
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much the same way as before the Ethiopian War, Italian morale was steadily being puffed up last week. Chief puffer was 44-year-old Roberto Farinacci, editor of Cremona's Regime Fascista, who prides himself on "living dangerously," lost his right hand fighting against the Ethiopians. For the Spanish crisis he had a simple, clear-cut remedy-Italy must make war on France and Britain at once. As is usual when Firebrand Farinacci ignites himself, the Italian Government denied all responsibility, cited the repudiated article as "proof of Italian liberty of the press." Although Britain, too, loves freedom...
Another thunder-clap followed next day. Roberto Farinacci, editor of Cremona's Regime Fascista aimed at one particular Jew, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, French member of the famed banking family. Boomed Farinacci: "Rothschild offered plenty of help to that brigand Haile Selassie. ... He finances all anti-Fascist movements and now prefers to live and amuse himself in Florence...
...high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism of Di Valero," exulted the official militia organ, "is the supreme gesture of a Black Shirt who, facing the alternative of failing in duty or dying, accepted without an instant's hesitation the choice...
...Perhaps you are not aware that Dr. de Bosis lost his life on the return flight to France. No gas was the cause, and his plane dropped into the sea somewhere near Corsica. He was known to the writer. 'Twas a big pity that he became an anti-Fascista, as his career had great promises. He will be mourned for many years...
...Less Grave." In the Vatican, Pope Pius pondered the Fascist retort. He was disturbed by the extent of the controversy which has raged ever since Lavoro Fascista charged editorially that the Vatican's 15,000 Catholic Action clubs were meddling in politics and the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, made it a political war (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The Pope was more disturbed by the manner in which his encyclical had been interpreted as a challenge. After he had pored over Mussolini's retort, he let it be announced that he felt relieved. The Vatican spokesman said...