Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World War II, he advocated collaboration with the Communist rebels, proclaimed an amnesty when he became Premier...
...Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
...imagine who would want to kill him. Walter Reuther wasn't quite sure either: "The same people who paid to have me shot paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within...
Last week the Metropolitan's joy was raising a sorrowful echo in Rome. Sebastian, it appeared, had belonged to the family of a Fascist nobleman, Count Francesco de Larderel, who fled Florence ahead of the liberation. Charging that the picture had been illegally smuggled out of Italy, the Italian government asked the U.S. State Department's help in tracing the story down...
Edda Ciano, daughter of Mussolini and ranking prewar playgirl of Fascist Italy, was anticipating a tidy windfall: the U.S. Government was expected to release to her some $40,000 in royalties on her late husband's Ciano Diaries, now that the Italian government had decided it was all right for her to accept...