Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...
...governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent his regrets: recently he had fallen asleep during an investiture at Government House and did not feel up to a conference on a warship...
Hollywood might have given fresh clarity and vigor to the familiar story of the eager, humane A.M.G. Major Joppolo, who introduced democracy to Fascist-ridden Adano, and to arrogant, bellicose General Marvin, who sent him packing for defying the General's inhumane orders. But Marvin, who appears only once, looking not unlike General George Patton, is handled with such kid-gloved tenderness that he never becomes a real, hateful antagonist. In consequence, Joppolo's zeal for spreading democracy becomes a worthy but not over-exciting crusade that lacks the dramatic conflict which would have made it exciting...
...storm in 1932. Author Broch was already at work on The Death of Virgil when he fled to the U.S. from his native Austria in 1938. That same year Novelist Ezio Taddei, an Italian anarchist, climbed the Alps and escaped to France and the U.S., after 18 years in Fascist prisons. His new novel, The Pine Tree and the Mole, is a study of Italian society some 2,000 years after Virgil's death. In both books the theme is the tortured condition of man when the old gods fall before the dictatorship of Caesar...
Trials of former fascist officials are much alike. Most are depressing, for the trials are chiefly a formality for the record...