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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, short-sighted Japanese Emperor Hirohito, the not-too-alert Son of Heaven, sent to his Fascist ally Premier Benito Mussolini the highest decoration in the gift of His Imperial Majesty. Italian papers proudly reported that Il Duce had received the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Japanese Empire, did not mention that it consisted of a decoration in the form of a flower, that its proper name was the "Order of the Chrysanthemum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flower to Mussolini | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

When Prussian-educated Dictator General John Metaxas last month smashed a piddling anti-Fascist revolt among dirty, liberty-loving peasants on the island of Crete (TIME, Aug. 8), he celebrated by announcing that he had become "Premier for Life." Some of the 400 peasants who seized the town of Canea, capital of Crete, surrendered when the Greek Navy arrived carrying two regiments of Greek soldiers. Others, including 42 known rebel leaders, escaped to Crete's rugged mountains, where they are still at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Defendants Missing | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Dies House Committee investigating Un-American Activities who went to investigate in Manhattan last week, appeared a small, excitable Italian in grey shirt and black string tie. Girolamo Valenti's mission is to keep Benito Mussolini out of the U. S. He is chairman of the Italian Anti-Fascist Committee, was editor of La Stampa Libra, now defunct. Mr. Valenti told the investigators a startling story about how Mussolini is roping in U. S. school children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Recruits for Balilla | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...born children of Italian parents, for a trip to Italy. It packs them aboard drip at New York, pays all their expenses. When they arrive in Italy, the children are sent to camps and clapped into the black-shirted uniform of the Balilla, Fascist youth organization. They march in military drills, learn to give the Fascist salute and to sing the praises of Mussolini. After touring Italian cities, where they are banqueted and reviewed by Government officials, back they go to the U. S., devout Fascists all, to awe and convert their neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Recruits for Balilla | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...director of the Dante Alighieri Society, Government-supported Italian cultural and propaganda agency. Mr. Giani, whose office is in the headquarters of the Italian consulate in Manhattan, has as assistant recruiters, according to Mr. Valenti, Italian consuls, teachers in some U. S. colleges and public schools, pro-Fascist Catholic priests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Recruits for Balilla | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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