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Every woman adores a Fascist...
...Geneva on June 30, 1936. His country had been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that is due to my people ... God and history will remember your judgment." Then, as he stepped down, he murmured the words...
...many visits to Portugal in the past year, Scott has had only one disagreeable incident: his suitcase was delivered from his plane to the Lisbon terminal bearing the inscription "You are a fascist." "It was doubtless the work of an anonymous baggage handler giving vent to free expression," says Scott imperturbably, "a liberty I personally hope he continues to enjoy...
...Happy Revolution!" proclaimed the slogans hastily scrawled on the walls in Lisbon. So it seemed to many Portuguese, as optimism and euphoria marked the weeks immediately following the coup of April 25, 1974, when a group of young military officers ended nearly five decades of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. Jubilant citizens lionized the soldiers, plopping long-stemmed red carnations into the muzzles of their rifles. Political exiles returned home to tumultuous welcomes. Amnestied political prisoners walked out of their jails to the embraces of ecstatic relatives and friends. Freedom of the press and assembly was proclaimed, the hated secret police...
Among the exiles are members of Portugal's legendary "Twenty Families" -the tight-knit, moneyed oligarchy that completely dominated their nation's economy and cooperated closely with the fascist regime. While an M.F.A. blacklist prohibits all wealthy businessmen from emigrating, many have managed to flee. Some literally walked across the border into Spain, while others sailed from Portugal's ports in their yachts -before the navy began patrolling the coast to prevent such escapes...