Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moral Purification. Two days later Matthews talked with Count Carlo Sforza, newly landed in Italy after 16 years of exile by Fascists, heard the white-bearded onetime (1920-21) Foreign Minister declare a need for a "moral purification [of] the whole Italian atmosphere." Said Sforza: "What is dangerous and morally intolerable is the malicious whispering carried on by Fascist-minded persons who have been kept in official positions by the Badoglio Government or by Allied authorities. . . . I am sure [Badoglio] hates and loathes Fascism. The evil comes mainly from . . . 'court circles' where everything is tried...
...know we will never get there if America tries to play a hand at the old game of power politics. We must encourage . . . and work exclusively with the forces that are neither Nazi-tainted nor Fascist-stained. . . . America must be willing to agree to bear its share in any military effort to prevent or repel aggression...
Brother v. Brother. In the north, beyond the German lines, the premature anti-Fascist risings of the summer had a painful aftermath. In Milan the Archbishop, Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Shuster, found it necessary to threaten excommunication to those who denounced their anti-Fascist brothers to the Germans. Mussolini's Republican Fascist Government, speaking from a still-undisclosed capital, bawled new threats of death and imprisonment to all who wavered in their love for the Duce...
...admit that a nation, which, through treachery and cowardice in 1935 and again in 1940 . . . declared war upon peaceful neighbors, can, at a moment's notice in her hour of defeat, claim the status of cobelligerent. . . . Ethiopia desires to assist those Italians who sincerely seek to [end] Fascist tyranny. . . . She can never admit to that group . . . the genius of poison gas, Badoglio...
...argument, of course, is politics. Did the movie tone down Hemingway's anti-fascist propaganda or didn't it? Quite obviously it did, but it also toned down the sex and the sweazing as all good Hayes office men will attest...