Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edda's Boy. Ciano, who has one of the largest vanities in Europe, was eased into a seat on the Fascist Grand Council and then appointed Ambassador to the Vatican. As a Council member he saved face in the Party. As Vatican envoy he kept some of his social prestige (and was in a position to meet diplomatic representatives of enemy countries). He needed these cushions for his ego because the "change of guard" removed him from his position as heir apparent to the Italian dictatorship, and from his easy access to the public trough. Both the Italian people...
Stooges and Rumors. The other changes put Party nonentities in the places of such men as Count Dino Grandi di Mordano, a moderate who was once Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and Alessandro Pavolini, one of the few Fascist bigwigs with administrative ability...
...fascist, or quasi-fascist control still existing in many of the colonies must be dealt with mainly by pressure, from the American and British governments, and by public opinion in those two countries, according to Mayer. Already popular outbursts have forced the release of some of the political prisoners from jails where they have been since the start of the invasion. A similar result could be obtained against the Vichyist leaders still in power, if enough pressure were applied, Mayer believes...
Frenchmen siding with the British and U.S. forces in Martinique, thrown into jail by the German-inspired French leaders, have been released by pressure from the two governments and pro-fascist leaders have been replaced by men more sympathetic to the United Nations cause, according to Mayer...
...difficult political situation was originally created by the necessity for the Vichy government to pay its political debts, after the fall of France. The fascist cause in France had very considerable support before the actual invasion, and resulting demise of France occurred, Mayer said, and when the Vichyites came into power there was an insistent clamoring to be "paid off." The positions in North Africa were awarded in large number to such men, where conditions were in a state of flux and there was large opportunity for corruption, Professor Mayer stated...