Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Armistice streets in many Italian cities were named Via Wilson, Via d'Annunzio or Via Fiume, to suit changing enthusiasms. To name a street for Mussolini is not enough. So it is reported from Milan that a "model city" will be constructed in southern Italy in honor of the modest Benito and that this city will bear "for all time" the novel name of "Mussolini...
...sudden report from Rome, originated in semiofficial circles, stated that it was very unlikely that any alteration would take place in the official relations between the Vatican and the Mussolini Government...
There are times when so vague and negative an announcement is news, and this is one of them, for the relations of the Vatican to Mussolini's Govern-ment have been secret and increasingly friendly, and Mussolini's friends have endeavored to capitalize the fact into a fait accompli which would end the 50-year-old scandal of Rome...
...little priest, Don Sturzo, and held the balance of power in the Parliament. The reactionary wing of the Vatican found itself in,thorough sympathy with the paternalistic nature of Fascism's aims. There was a good bit of cordial cooperation accomplished secretly. Filippo Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner appointed by Mussolini to succeed the Mayor of Rome, paid a call on Cardinal Pompili, Vicar of Rome, the officer whose predecessors had once ruled the city under the Papal States. His call was returned noncommittally (TiME, March 24, 1923). The Fascisti restored religious education in the public schools. In return for these...
Against this pronunciamento Mussolini has striven in vain, and now rumors have been quieted by the news that there is, after all, to be no change in Vatican-Quirinal relations, and that Pope Pius I apparently feels that the Holy, Roman and Apostolic Church is an institution of greater permanency than the latest condottore who has laid strong hands on the Eternal City...