Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monsignor Egon Turcsanyi, 65-year-old secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and 15 priests between the ages of 20 and 28. Turcsanyi, so ill he could not attend some of the sessions, was accused of plotting a fascist "counterrevolution" against the Red regime and stealing documents from the State Office for Church Affairs. According to the regime six of the priests "repented" their "crime": distributing leaflets and a message from Pope Pius XII, which stated "the people of Hungary live in misery...
...spoke in accented English: "I salute the great American people." CBS conjured up the Duce's shade in Mussolini, a fast-moving half hour on Twentieth Century galvanized by rare images of the living past. Viewers caught glimpses they had half forgotten or never seen before: newborn Fascist babies squirming wholesale on a nursery table; the bare-chested dictator on a ski slope; his mistress, Claretta Petacci, in a silken boudoir; an anonymous GI mugging in victory from the famous balcony of the Palazzo Venezia...
...government officials refused to let any of it out of the country. Instead, he dug valuable old clips out of French newsreel files. And, like the bluebird of happiness, the best footage he had seen in Rome turned up in copies back in Manhattan, where a search unearthed a Fascist documentary shot in the late '205 with a script by Benito Mussolini himself...
...questions unresolved. The revolution tended to be a permanent thing-an ideal, a matter for the future rather than a historical event. Its romance became a myth which grew to include other revolutions, notably the Russian, until at times the French cult of revolution seems "indistinguishable from the Fascist cult of violence." Enemies of the church, French intellectuals have hankered for a substitute religion and found it in a kind of futurism." Revolution. Aron says, serves as a refuge from reality for Utopian intellectuals; Communism is their opium...
...official British code books, took them over to his Italian contact, smoked and drank in nervous anxiety for seven hours while they were being photographed, and had them back safe in the morning. That, Costantini did admit, "was a bad moment," but it had a telling effect on Fascist policy. After that. Benito Mussolini's breakfasts were made pleasanter by the fact that he could read reports from Whitehall to Rome often before British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond himself had seen them...