Word: mazzini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascismo ("an artificial and corrupt house of cards which will fall some day in a few hours"). A patient, humane man, with historical perspective, he believed that his nation had strayed into its most tragic hour, but that in good time the countrymen of Dante and Galileo, Michelangelo and Mazzini, Verdi and Ferrero, would come out all right. "They are grand, they are grand!" he said as the little people of Italy turned from the Blackshirts and their alliance with the Germans...
...Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King). It was the shame of the Savoy dynasty that Vittorio Emanuele III helped Fascismo destroy the democratic constitution his grandfather had upheld...
Machine and Machine Guns. This is just what Professor Salvemini, a Mazzini republican of the old school,† is afraid of. Like many Britons and Americans, he believes that a social upheaval will result from the invasion of Italy. He fears that Roosevelt, Churchill, the Vatican and many Italian reactionaries are in tacit agreement to check this social revolution by keeping intact the machinery of the Fascist state and local administrators. This requires that the Italian army "remain faithful to the Monarchy and to its own chiefs, so that it will not hesitate to machine-gun the rebels...
Italo-Americans of the Boston area will have a chance to discuss their stand in relation to the war at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow night when the Massachusetts branch of the Mazzini Society holds a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall...
...leaflet issued by the Mazzini society points out that German domination has brought nothing but misfortune, and urges the Italian public in this country to remain aloof from fascist propaganda, remembering that the patriotic Italian need not be a fascist...