Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Duce's upper teeth now protruded grotesquely, there was no mistaking his jaw. In death, Mussolini seemed a little man. He wore a Fascist Militia uniform - grey breeches with a narrow black stripe, a green-grey tunic and muddy black riding boots. A bullet had pierced his skull over the left eye and emerged at the back, leaving a hole from which the brains dripped. Mistress Petacci, 2 5 -year-old daughter of an ambitious Roman family, wore a white silk blouse. In her breast were two bullet holes ringed by dark circles of dried blood...
...Verse magazine: "Nothing new has happened in this war. Men have been tortured, women have been murdered, explosives have exploded. . . . That helps one, not to be indifferent, which is impossible, but not to be taken in ... by the lewd rhetoric of a war. . . . In this country, the Black Militia of the Pen ask where the war poets are; and they only mean, where are the thumps on the tub, the morale poems...
...Third Republic's last Minister of the Interior. He had fled to Morocco after the 1940 debacle. He would rouse the Empire, he cried, to fight on. Vichy and the Gestapo nabbed and jailed him, buried him in silence. Last July, on a bypath of Fontainebleau Forest, militia of Vichy's Joseph Darnand rubbed him out in gangster style...
...Basic reason: distrust of the F.N.'s Communist complexion. M.L.N. delegates assailed the new Party line laid down by Maurice Thorez, France's No. 1 Communist, who recently returned from wartime exile in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 11). Thorez had called for the disbanding of all Resistance militia, even Communist armed bands who had seized authority in some localities. "Public security," he said, "should be assured by the regular police...
...With the militia under their control, the Communists have asserted themselves and now are driving fast to gain a full hold on the country's administration...