Word: fascists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, actor who helped popularize postwar Italian comedies; in Rome. The working-class Sordi started out dubbing voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...
...President Woodrow Wilson’s stated commitment to building a new world order that would preserve democracy and prevent international conflict (even though the United States, because of domestic political bickering, never actually joined). Yet its feebleness and inability to deter violent aggression quickly became apparent. In 1923, Fascist Italy shelled and occupied the Greek island of Corfu. There were protests in the League against the Italian bombardment, but no credible response was authorized. Then, in 1931, Japanese armed forces took over the Chinese province of Manchuria and subsequently established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Once again, despite...
...illegal rearmament and militarization of the Rhineland were sadly tolerated. While the League was compelled to act when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia in the summer of 1935, the result was only limited “sanctions”—(sound familiar?)—on the Fascist government. Britain and France, charged with formulating the League’s punishment of Italy, had economic and geo-political interests that discouraged them from taking a stronger stance...
...gasoline, worried that supplies would soon run out. Opposition parties - backed by the public-sector unions and National Business Association - accuse the President of promoting class hatred, and of taking the country toward Cuban-style socialism. But Chávez maintained he would survive what he called "the terrorist-fascist strike," and refused to discuss elections. He said his opponents were trying to destabilize the country and force the military to intervene, which is exactly what happened in April, when dissident military officers briefly overthrew the government. Meanwhile, international mediation efforts continued, led by the Secretary-General of the Organization...
...utopian ideology of multiculturalism and closed their eyes to the contradictions spawned by their social choices. Fortunately, the center-right has co-opted the far-right’s immigration platform, and with it their popularity, while steering clear of extremism. Instead of blasting all European conservatives for imaginary fascist tendencies, liberals should thank them for saving Europe from the real thing...