Word: fascistization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcements were then made that Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi di Val Cismon, "old guard" Fascist, was appointed Italy's Ambassador to Vatican City...
France and Fascist Italy, with whom the Baldwin government had been on the best of terms, were depressed at the prospect of a change...
...princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity of State pomps and ceremonies. Correspondents in Rome learned other more practical reasons for the new prohibition. After two years of competing in these strange international competitions, it has been noticed that Italy invariably loses. Any competition in which Italy loses is not one to be encouraged...
Shrill, fussy Minister of Public Works Giovanni Battista Giuriati was last week elected President of the new 100% Fascist Chamber of Deputies (TIME, April 8). Casting about for some one to fill the vacant Ministry of Public Works, the powers-that-are came upon Signor Benito Mussolini...
...idea that Dictator Mussolini purposes to use the Catholic Church as a sword of conquest was cartooned lately with savage power in Amsterdam's Notenkraker (Nut Cracker), much to the satisfaction of super-Protestant Netherlanders (see cut). Other cartoonists have drawn Pope Pius XI in a Fascist black shirt and Mussolini with the Papal Tiara perched on his rather bald head. The caricatured insinuation is always that His Holiness and His Excellency are reprehensibly in cahoots. Last week in the Vatican Gardens occurred a scene which made the scurrilous inkmen rub their stained hands with glee. Some 150 prominent...