Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crashing notes of Giovinezza did not end that evening's terse news. For the first time in more than two decades, the Fascist hymn was replaced by Italy's Marcia Reale...
...First Operation. No longer was there a Duce. But more than 20 years of Fascist power and preachment could not be wiped out in a day. Mussolini, as much as any man, had planted the cancer that had spread beyond his homeland into Germany, Spain, Central Europe and the Balkans. The removal of the Italian dictator was, in a sense, preliminary surgery on the malignance still afflicting mankind...
...Mussolini's place stood no democrat. Aging (71), stiff-backed Martinet Pietro Badoglio had never been counted an extreme Fascist. When the Blackshirts were marching on Rome he looked on contemptuously, offered to clean them up. He had opposed Mussolini's war against Greece, had become the scapegoat for the abject Fascist failure there. He had sided with high Italians who resented the alliance with Hitler and the swelling Nazi arrogance in Italy. The camera's eye had once caught him, alone and defiant among a group of officers, declining to follow the Duce in the Fascist...
...peace with terms, despite the Allied insistence on "unconditional surrender." Many an allied citizen, still troubled by Darlanism in North Africa, had reason to be troubled lest Savoyism crop up in the Italian peninsula. The U.S. State Department would not say whether it classed the House of Savoy as Fascist; neatly it put that issue up to the Allied military command in Italy...
...Never More. The Fascist Party's Secretary General Carlo Scorza promptly rejected this message. But he could not count on its rejection by the Italian people, he had to exhort them to spurn it. He tried to rally them, not to the bound sticks of Fascist heraldry, but to "the symbols of their millenary and everlasting glory ... the Catholic faith and the monarchy of Savoy." He tried to rouse them with a prediction-which was an admission of impending defeat in Sicily: "On the sacred soil of our adored fatherland," cried he, "we shall find more favorable conditions...