Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Press fell for the story that the U.S. Government was in possession of information concerning a "secret document": an alleged, Fascist-sounding oath by which De Gaullists swear eternal allegiance to their chief. The enlistment oath, printed in London last April, contained no such clause...
...absence of concrete facts demonstrating Democracy's superiority over Dictatorship is deplorable. Instead of protestations of eternal friendship followed by threats of total annihilation, Italians would like, for instance, to hear: 1) that Fascist printing presses in Tunis and Tripoli are now printing democratic Italian newspapers; 2) that the property of Fascists who fled from these cities has been confiscated, their mansions turned into rest homes for tired workmen...
...shaky pillars of this baroque structure, the Fascist Grand Council, last week held its first officially announced emergency session since the night before Italy daggered France. It was followed by an order which was tantamount to total mobilization and a list of drastic reforms calling for "increased ruthlessness," and "pitiless elimination" of subversive activities. The hour for Fascism to pit its strength against the Allies was nearing...
Recently there were signs that others were not so impressed with the Duce's doings. Editors, including the intellectual apologist Giuseppe Bottai, stayed in office despite criticisms of the Fascist regime unheard of before the war. Bottai used an oblique technique of presenting "demands from the soul of Italy," for which he personally would take no responsibility. One of these demands was for "competent political government, inspired as far as possible by a sincere desire to serve," another for "more vigorous progress toward social justice...
Until President Roosevelt's message last week the underground has been handicapped by the failure of the Allies to give definite assurances (as distinct from generalities) that the primary accomplishment of invading troops will be the crushing of the Fascist Party (as distinct from the Italian people). The President's words gave those assurances while Fascist guns and those of Germany still keep Italy in line. But they were unlikely to precipitate an immediate revolt...