Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest covers 1937-38, the years of the German annexation of Austria, the forging of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, and Munich. Like the first, it packs no great historical surprises, but sketches in a lively picture of intrigue and ethical corrosion along with some gossipy portraits of Fascist bigwigs. As a strutting I-witness of fateful events, Ciano thought that he and the Duce were swashbuckling through history like Renaissance princes, when actually, as the diaries reveal, they were only learning to heel every time the Germans heiled...
...Goose Is Roman." The Fascist leaders were painfully anxious not to lose face with the Germans. "Pay attention to uniforms," Ciano cued himself for a visit to Germany. "We must be more Prussian than the Prussians." Mussolini repeatedly lectured Ciano on "the necessity for redeeming Italy's reputation as a faithless nation. Bismark used to say that you can't have a policy with Italy when she is faithless both as friend and foe." Yet no one took a more contemptuous view of the Italian people than Mussolini himself. One incident or another kept him boiling. "The Duce...
With Pietro Nenni, clever leader of the fellow-traveling Socialists (75 seats), De Gasperi had his longest talk. The two spoke with the intimate second-person "tu" a reminder of the days they spent together as wartime anti-Fascist refugees in the Vatican. Of course, said Nenni, he did not expect De Gasperi to denounce the North Atlantic pact, but was it necessary to show such "excessive zeal" in promoting it? De Gasperi asked if Nenni's Socialists are really as independent of Togliatti's Reds as they profess. Replied Nenni frankly: if the Communists were to take...
...feat is only one of many extraordinary things about an extraordinary movie. Strange Deception is the first film effort of a highly controversial literary figure: 54-year-old Italian Journalist Curzio (Kaputt, The Skin) Malaparte, notorious in recent times for his shifting and often unsavory political alliances with both Fascist and Communist causes. In Strange Deception, Malaparte, who now claims to have renounced all forms of politics, has made a completely unpolitical movie which he describes as "a Christian film." It is neither pro-nor antiFascist, neither pro-nor antiCommunist; instead, with an almost religious fervor, it voices a profound...
...quickly got on Mussolini's black list-he dared to condemn the Fascist murder of Socialist Giacomo Matteotti and to ask the King to dismiss // Duce...