Word: italia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the offices of Popolo d'Italia, the newspaper child of Benito Mussolini, the Milanese displayed a long-pent hatred. Within the building an armed band of Fascists held out. Led by Vito Mussolini, a nephew of the ex-Duce, they had seized women and children as hostages. They tried to placate the angry crowd by tossing from the top floor a man thought to be Amerigo Dumini, one of the assassins of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist who long ago defied clubs and castor oil. Then the carabinieri came. After several days of rifle fire and tear...
...parties still have their differences, but they have agreed on at least two aims: nationalization of heavy industry, and a democratic state to succeed Mussolini's Fascist state. Said the liberal party's newspaper Italia Libera: "Although our ultimate goals differ, there is a long road along which we shall travel together...
Compromise Peace? In Rome's Giornale d'Italia, Columnist-Editor Virginia Gayda blurted...
...make his point even more emphatic, Conductor Toscanini changed Verdi's Italia, patria mia (Italy, my country) to Italia tradita (Italy betrayed...
...Matteotti group publishes a thrice-weekly newspaper, Italia Libera (Free Italy) . . . in print shops changed with each issue from city to city. The Matteotti also uses three short-wave transmitters, for interregional communication, not for propaganda broadcasts. "Penetration of the regime has gone so far that one of the largest [Fascist] party organizations has become virtually a branch of the underground...