Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Radio Yenan: "Chiang Kaishek, the Fascist chieftain . . . whose policy has been to sit aside and watch others fight . . . really has no right to accept a Japanese surrender. . . . Reactionary . . . stupid . . . sinister plot ... to instigate civil...
...fool the Germans and insure French survival. . . . (Hoots of derision from the jury.) Shouted Laval: "Who in his right mind would have thought otherwise than that Germany would win the war?" . . . (The hoots swelled into a roar.) Screamed Laval: "I am not a Nazi. I am not a fascist. ... I hate war-even when we win, and we always lose. ... I love the republic. ... I resent being called Pétain's 'evil genius...
Tribute & Applause. The Fascists did their best to make a great musician of Pietro Mascagni, and he cooperated. In 1926, he was appointed Arturo Toscanini's successor as director of Milan's La Scala. He obliged by composing a Hymn of Labor. The obedient Fascist press hailed his 1935 opera Nero, a musical tribute to Mussolini's Italy, but it flopped anyway...
...audiences, continuing to applaud the 55-year-old Cavalleria (which has had more than 250 performances at the Met), disregarded the composer's Fascist foolishness. Many had even forgotten that he still lived, that he and Richard Strauss were the only living men among the composers in the Met's 1944-45 season...
...that it highlights. Marshal Tukhachevsky's twelve-year-old daughter was not informed that he had been liquidated overnight. But when she got to school the next day, the other children shouted abuse at her and refused to sit in the same room with the daughter of a "fascist traitor." The little girl went home and hanged herself...