Word: fascistically
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...were also gloating over two "criminals" last week. They were Giuseppe Togliatti, brother of Italy's No. 1 Communist, Palmiro Togliatti, and Mario Badoglio, son of Marshal Badoglio. The Germans threatened to kill them (and 38 others) in reprisal for the execution of Pietro Caruso, Rome's Fascist police chief (see below...
First Italian Fascist condemned by a court of Italy's national government, Caruso had been the most hated man in Rome since Mussolini sent him down from the north to be chief of the capital's police and quell the rising opposition to war and Fascism. He had been a practising sadist. He had kept a private apartment where he personally tortured prize victims. He had been lame since the day a gnat flew into his eye as he raced northward in an open car to escape the Allies. The car had swerved into a ditch. Caruso broke...
...Execution by shooting a seated man in the back is an old Fascist custom...
Simple Absurdities. Here & there flurries of violence spotlighted the morbid aimlessness. A Roman mob beat and drowned a hated Fascist (TIME, Sept. 25). In other cities there were other acts of mob violence. Barefoot carabinieri flunkied for Allied officers. Once they had been traditional symbols of legality and order. Now they were simple absurdities. But the mobs had not coalesced into a movement. Most Italians were too preoccupied with keeping alive, or too weak from hunger to stir...
...Abolish all Fascist organizations, free all antiFascists, intern all Axis nationals, restore in good order all property seized from Allied nationals...