Word: modena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the laborers did not really want to quit the fields. But Communist squads and the Communist-dominated Chambers of Labor saw to it that the strike did not collapse. In Modena, city workers reinforced the agricultural strikers. Said they: "We have come to help our brothers in the field." A favorite Communist tactic was deliberate dislocation of labor-ordering workers needed desperately in one place to farms where there was no work for them...
...respectable (or blue-serge-suit) school of Communism, which advocates conquest of power by fooling the people instead of shooting them. Last week, Togliatti decided that, since his party was losing ground, he would be a Communist with hair on his chest. Cried he before a cheering crowd at Modena...
...bell of the University of Padua (home of St. Anthony, whom the faithful invoke to find lost articles) tolled for nine hours. Five thousand Romans jeered U.S. and British troops in Piazza del Popolo. Mobs paraded in Florence, Modena, Reggio Calabria. At Trieste, which Italy considered lost by a Paris conference decision, 10,000 nationalist firebrands stormed right up to the bow of the berthed cruiser U.S.S. Fargo and screamed: "Down with the Allied traitors! Get out of Italy and let us settle the score! Why don't you go back home to America...
While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...
There was no time to celebrate. Northward the German armies were stretched out on the roads, vulnerable to attack. Brazilian Expeditionary Corps troops and U.S. units swung by Bologna, bypassed the road center of Modena and drove to the Po. Overhead Allied flyers roared, flashed down to strafe the marching enemy; in one day 1,700 Nazi vehicles were destroyed or damaged...