Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late in the week the Chamber again rang with Fascist cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of pan-German propagandists to hinder his Italianization of the pre-War Alto Adige, or South-Austrian Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy at the Peace Conference...
What of the immediate future? Would there be radical changes in the relations of State and Church? Would the Pope come out from prison? Would he consent to be once more an Italian as well as a world power? "It is all conversations," replied the Cardinal. "He [Mussolini] does us an amiable favor from time to time but nothing is changed. I see no prospect of a change. Papal Rome is adamant." In a last attempt to strike a spark of Italian patriotism, the reporter asked about the proposed revivification of the Roman Empire. The Cardinal chuckled: "Oh, you like...
...Mussolini...
Interpretess. Signora Sarfatti, wife of a prominent Italian lawyer and for many years a devoted assistant in his editorship of various newspapers, achieves her most telling passages in her interpretation of Mussolini's well known "about face" from Socialism to Fascism...
...object which he has always passionately striven to advance. Before the War he believed that he had found among the Socialists the men who were trying to rescue Italy from her "misgovernment." Then the War precipitated a crisis ip which the Socialists wanted international "peace at any price," whereas Mussolini eventually came to feel that the national glory of Italy demanded that she should fight?expand. He rushed off to fight. He obeyed an officer who commanded him to fire "just once more" a trench-mortar which he had warned the officer was unsafe. The mortar burst. Mussolini sustained...