Word: fascistically
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...woman is the bored and elegant wife of a witty, philandering Italian diplomat stationed in Greece in 1936, when, as people used to say, the war clouds were gathering. What she sees from her window is a Communist on the run from a police roundup ordered by a new fascist dictatorship. What happens after he climbs through the window is that love conquers the class barriers and she devises an elaborate stratagem to help him escape the country. Later, we are given to understand, she joins him and they both become martyrs to his cause after World War II begins...
DIED. Ignazio Silone, 78, Italian novelist and a founding member of his country's Communist Party in 1921; in Geneva. Driven into Swiss exile by Mussolini's blackshirts for his political activities, Si-lone wrote two bitterly anti-Fascist and well-received novels, Fontamara (1930) and Bread and Wine (1936). Returning to Italy in 1944, he had a second fling with politics, then retired to his writing...
...unpleasant resistance. It was "shocking and intolerable," said one report, that a number of cadres had failed to root out all the allies of Mao Tsetung's wife Chiang Ch'ing and her cohorts. There were still some officials, declared one newspaper darkly, who insisted upon "exercising fascist dictatorship over the people...
...enthusiastic outburst from the 1,011-member Grand Electoral Assembly was more than a spontaneous tribute to a respected senior politician and wartime anti-Fascist hero. Mostly, the cheer reflected all Italy's relief that a parliamentary stalemate had ended and another political crisis had been averted...
...many right-wing Christian Democrats were disappointed by the outcome, few had any personal quarrel with Pertini. A native of Savona, on the Italian Riviera, he was imprisoned several times between 1925 and the end of World War II for his underground resistance work-first against Mussolini's fascist regime, later against the Nazis. He was co-founder of the postwar Socialist Party and has been a member of Parliament since 1946. Pertini does have one striking advantage at this particular time: in his long parliamentary career, there has never been a hint of scandal...