Word: fascistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Tito proclaimed a comprehensive national program: "Annihilation ... [of] the Fascist occupier . . . Quislings and traitors. . . . Free elections as soon as possible. . . . Democratic rights must be safeguarded and extended. The State's planned intervention in the organization and conduct of ... the entire economic life is ... an unconditional...
Thirty-six hours after royalist General Mario Roatta became a fugitive from Rome's anti-Fascist purge (TIME, March 12), the Communist newspaper, Unita, called upon Italians to demonstrate. To Colosseum Square marched 10,000 men & women. While red flags flapped from the walls that had once looked down on other gladiators. Socialist, Actionist and Communist orators shouted: "The monarchy must fall! We will not leave the streets till a republic is proclaimed...
...Rome's dank Palazzo della Sapienza (Palace of Wisdom), the High Court for Punishment of Fascist Crimes weighed the fate of ailing General Mario Roatta...
Through a month of bickering testimony the stocky, jut-jawed Blackshirt, who was Mussolini's Chief of Staff and Chief of SIM (secret service), had denied all charges against him. No! no! he cried, he had not ordered the murder of Carlo and Nello Roselli, famed anti-Fascist refugees in France. That crime had been done while he was busy in Spain's civil war, in which he led the Italian flight from Guadalajara. But the prosecution brushed aside his protests, demanded his imprisonment for life. While the judges deliberated, Roatta's weak heart fluttered...
Died. Jacques Doriot, 57, pudgy, mop-haired, ex-Communist, French Fascist founder of the pro-Nazi French People's Party, who once demanded that Vichy declare war on the U.S. and Britain; from the fire of low-flying Allied planes which attacked his car (according to German reports); in southwestern Germany...