Word: fascista
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...This is the highest and most solemn moment of our war," Italy's chief labor newspaper, Lavoro Fascista, said last week. "The time has come to say to our open and hidden enemies that we have never been prouder of being Italians and Fascisti. . . . That goes also for those Italians who are falser than Greek money and, doubly bastardized, who have not the heart to hold out to victory and who are not worthy of it. With them, fortunately, the accounting is near...
...University of Rome last week saw its chance. After Napoleon's downfall, France was forced to return much Italian swag-notably the Horses of St. Mark's-but Italy was never satisfied that it had recovered all its rightful treasures. Last week Fascista, the University's official publication, listed demands for more: the Mona Lisa, other Da Vinci works, masterpieces by Titian, which include a portrait of the French King, Francis...
...Mona Lisa once hung in Bonaparte's bedroom at the Tuileries, but that was three centuries after its purchase by Francis I, onetime patron of its painter. Records indicate that the picture remained in France until its theft from the Louvre in 1911 by an Italian. But Fascista was longer on acquisitive patriotism than on logic. Said Fascista...
Tragically significant for Europe's people were the words that came out of Italy. Darkling Fascist Grand Councilman Roberto Farinacci, a onetime Socialist often used effectively by Benito Mussolini to sound off to the Italian masses, wrote in his Cremona paper Regime Fascista: "Now we can speak high and loud. . . . It is absurd to think that our country . . . shall not participate in the transformation of the map of Europe and perhaps of the world." In a broadcast to Italian troops at week's end, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, said: "No people...
...this naturally worried Germany. The official German view: it all means nothing. But nervousness was evident in the war's most roundabout dispatch: Rome's Lavoro Fascista heard from Milan that "it is reported from Amsterdam that The Netherlands press publishes an item dated Berlin, according to which Field Marshal Göring will go to Rome next Tuesday." Berlin denied the report. Perhaps it was not necessary for Marshal Göring to go to Rome to find out that Italy was playing this war every man for himself...