Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar echoing halls of the Palazzo Venezia he had summoned his cabinet and the tough, diehard party bosses, such men as Roberto Farinacci and Carlo Scorza, for a final tempestuous session. Then, perhaps, he had conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing his power...
From many sources came reports of Italy in upheaval. Bern and Stockholm told of peace riots in Bologna, Milan and Rome, of clashes between Italians and German soldiery. The Fascist Blackshirt militia, posted on the northern frontier, it was said, had been replaced by Badoglio's police; bad blood brewed between the factions; Italy might yet be plunged into civil...
...that glory the ashes were already thick. The dead face of more than one rival might flood by in Benito Mussolini's remembrance: Giacomo Matteotti, the murdered Socialist who defied castor oil and clubs; Italo Balbo, cut down when he grew too popular in the Fascist State. Then there was the dead face of his son, Bruno, a casualty of the war the father had glorified. Then the dead faces of those hundreds of thousands of men lost with the empire in Africa, the dead and fear-racked faces of millions of civilians fleeing their bombed homes...
London's Catholic Universe hoped that Catholics were not going to "play the Axis game by echoing the violent and hypocritical protests of the Italian Fascist radio." Three days after the bombing, the Vatican's own radio advised listeners to accept only Vatican reports of Vatican actions. But by this time the Catholic world was in an uproar...
...Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory (AMGOT), grappling with its first job in Sicily, everything seemed to go fine. Most of the island's 4,000,000 people were "cooperating wholeheartedly." Sometimes they become confused, as did the peasants who gave the Fascist salute, then shook hands...