Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Argentines were not happy about what they called "a tidal flow of holy water." La Prensa published part of a manifesto of the underground Italian "Fascist Democratic Party": "Our aim is to export Fascist elements to those countries that will listen to them in their propaganda for the fight now going on in Italy." Conceivably it referred to Argentina, a third of whose population is already Italian. Replied pro-Perón El Laborista: "Our doors are open to all men of good will...
Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...
Figure from the Past. Into the second day's fray shuffled a bizarre figure out of Socialism's pre-Fascist past. She was tiny (5 ft.), pale Angelica Balabanov, leftist Socialist refugee from the Soviet Union, who in Italy had once been the friend and close associate of Benito Mussolini in his Socialist days. She has remained one of Italian Socialism's most legendary heroines. Said Balabanov: "I left Russia when I realized that the Revolution had been converted into a matter of political exploitation."* The delegates reacted as if they had been lashed...
Sinclair Lewis, whose last try at movie writing was an anti-fascist horse opera (junked as "bad box office"), was back for another try-this time a satire on Adam & Eve. Two days after he hit Hollywood, Babbitt's aging creator: 1) went to a big party at Gossipist Hedda Hopper's, 2) talked like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings...
...Popular Front victory in the 1936 elections was something neither the caciques nor the army-nor the new Fascist Falange-could stomach. An ominous summer of street fights and rumors ended with Francisco Franco's moment-the vast confusion and fury of the Rightist uprising. Then, in Madrid, Barea saw gangsters and whores put on the overalls of "Milicianos," saw Anarchists and Socialists murdering each other and supposed Rightists without trial. He joined tipsy mobs setting churches afire and saw streets ringing with snipers' shots. It was months before the Loyalist Government could control its defenders...