Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ltalia, now published in France. 2) Professor Salyemini, Florentine historian and philosopher, now delivering anti-Fascist lectures in London, "because I feel safer with the waves of the Channel between me and Fascismo." 3) Former Editor Nenni of the suppressed Italian Socialist newspaper, Avanti, once edited by Premier Mussolini in his Socialist days...
...tribute to Mussolini there is no end. Il Re Vittorio Emanuele often sends him chamois shot upon the royal estates in Savoy. One humble Fascist is known to have done a painting for him in "pure salad oil." Last week there appeared a portrait of Il Benito done in 352 pages in jet-black printers' ink. Mussolini prefaced it with the remark, "I detest those who take me as the subject of their writings...
...there not been dawning these several years a glorious rapprochement between Italian State and Mother Church? Did not the Mussolini dictatorship support the Pope more than any other Italian Government in three generations? Did not even the Pope support Mussolini? No, no, and no, is now the official answer...
...Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri has been, since the beginning of the present pontificate, Papal Secretary of State, the official closest to the Holy Father. Recently it has seemed to some eager-eyed Fascists that the Cardinal's zeal for Fascismo has been insufficiently hot. At him went the Mussolini press unmuzzled. Fascist Secretary Farinacci charged him with having "displayed a vulgar demagogy." The Pope took notice, sent to the Cardinal Secretary a medal and with it a letter of supreme approbation...
Thus approved, the Cardinal Secretary went to Paris last week, and a reporter of L'Eclair found him surprisingly willing to talk. Not once could the reporter bring the name of Mussolini to the Cardinal's lips, but step by step through the interview the third person masculine referred invariably to the Dictator beyond the Alps. Summarizing recent history, the Cardinal said: "He has replaced the crucifix in the schools; he has returned the buildings which belonged to the Jesuits...