Word: fascistically
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...Fascist militia sombrely walked the streets...
...Time is limited." Well might Reynaud and his hands hurry last week. The peril was immediate, for as this week began, not only was France at war with Nazi Germany, but with Fascist Italy. Perhaps France had a millennium of freedom ahead-but it looked more like a mere thousand hours, perhaps less. The length of French resistance, the rigid odds of mechanization being what they were, depended directly on morale-of the troops and of the populace. Over the radio, Premier Reynaud addressed himself to this intangible factor. The enemy, he said, had embarked on three enterprises...
...name of Futurism he later urged letting canals run through art galleries-to blot out the pestilential past. Still later Signor Marinetti fought for Fascism, and became a close friend of II Duce. Down through the years he poured out Futurist manifestoes echoing Fascist policies...
...When Fascist Italy was short of wheat, Futurist Marinetti cried out against spaghetti, warning that it was farinaceous, fattening and foolish-making, that in the next war "the most nimble people will win." In a campaign against conservative, bourgeois dress, he manifestoed in favor of aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum...
...Rome last week, good Roman Catholics crossed themselves, averted their eyes from posters which blossomed on walls here & there in the city. The posters carried a blasphemous "Prayer of the Perfect Italian Fascist," which clumsily parodied the ancient supplications of Christians: Credo I believe in England, zone of tyranny, creator of sanctions and Masonic gods, and in Eden, her son, our only axman, -who was conceived by virtue of Masonic and anti-Fas cist spirits, was born out of the League of Nations, will suffer always under the spirit of Mussolini, went down to Hell with his father. . . . I believe...