Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Hitler dispatched to Signor Benito Mussolini a message assuring him that the German people would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the battle-proved Italian nation in defense against all hateful and incomprehensible attempts to restrict the justified will for living of our two peoples...
...Possessed of a keen sense of history and conscious of posterity's verdict, Signor Mussolini has many times predicted that the system of government he was inaugurating in Italy would revolutionize political science and in time be a model for future political organizations. In matters of government, the Italian Dictator is much more of a thinker than his intuitive and more successful colleague, Adolf Hitler. What he has been trying to do is to set up "The Corporative State...
Last week his thoughts materialized in the form of his most impressive material invention. In pre-Mussolini days the Italian Government was a constitutional monarchy modeled largely on the British system. The Italian Senate resembled the British House of Lords. Senators were (and still are) appointed for life by the King on the nomination of the Premier. The Chamber of Deputies, elected by universal suffrage, was like the House of Commons. It initiated legislation, formed and overthrew governments, held the actual reins of power. Now this system of government no longer exists even in form...
Five years ago Dictator Mussolini began his economic state building by setting up a system of "corporations" to regiment practically all phases of Italian life. There are 22 separate corporations, the members appointed by Il Duce, and consisting of an equal number of representatives from syndicates of capital and labor, three members designated by the Secretary of the Fascist Party, and a number of technicians. The corporations are classified in three general sections: 1) Agricultural-Industrial-Commercial Productive Cycle (including cereals, oils, livestock, textiles); 2) Industrial-Commercial Productive Cycle (chemicals, printing, utilities, metallurgy); 3) Service-producing Activities (credit and insurance...
Last week a small olive branch sprouted in the bramble of French-Italian difficulties. In a week when Benito Mussolini was expected to press Adolf Hitler for some cooperation on the short end of the axis there came at least four gestures of moderation...