Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Secretary General Achille ("The Panther Man") Starace of the Italian Fascist Party prowled through the halls of the Palazzo Littorio, Fascist headquarters in Rome, in an ugly mood. He called in the Party's trained mob-prompters and furiously dressed them down for an event which might have passed unnoticed by the outside world had Signor Starace not made such a fuss...
Monarchists. Meanwhile another reason was advanced for the delay of Dictator Franco's victory parade: he was afraid to demobilize. A Paris dispatch to the New York Times told of troubles the fascist-minded Spaniards (including the Generalissimo) were having with the Carlists, the monarchy-loving Spaniards of northern Spain. Instead of giving up their arms, Carlists have been hiding them. Carlists have been even more vociferous than Britons in demanding the departure of the Italians, who if anything are more unpopular in northern Spain than Germans. So fearful was Dictator Franco of Carlist trouble that soon after...
...during a Mussolini speech to the pick of his Blackshirts, assembled in Rome from all over Italy's knee, shin, heel and toe. The Blackshirts were on a jaunt. All expenses to and from Rome had been paid. In their pockets were fine crisp bank notes, "prizes" for Fascist merits, ranging from 500 to 2,000 lire. All this conspired to confuse them when Il Duce rhetorically touched on the subject of self-sacrifice. Confidently expecting a negative answer, he threw back his head and bellowed: "Do you want riches? Do you want glory? Do you want honors?" Their...
...Papal Secretary of State in 1925, thereafter became one of the Vatican's most useful U. S. prelates. He it was who rebroadcast in English the late Pope's first radio speech. He it was who, in 1931, smuggled out of Italy, by airplane, an anti-Fascist papal encyclical which was in danger of being suppressed. When the present Pope visited the U. S. in 1936, no prelate was more in his company than Bishop Spellman...
...Littauer Center Auditorium at 8:00 o'clock, Yale will have the affirmative on the question: "Resolved, That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist Powers", while Donald McDonald '39, Stanley, O. Beren '41, and Jack S. Orloff '41 will support the Crimson in the negative. Meanwhile in New Jersey another Harvard delegation of Lawrence F. Ebb '39, Phil C. Neal '40, and Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, will uphold the affirmative of the same question against Princeton...