Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starving, hate-ridden Spain, said he, must prepare to "fight a new war of a moral, religious, military and industrial character." Up went the temperatures of diplomats in the old and the new worlds. They wondered how long it would be before Franco, backed once more by friends Hitler & Mussolini, would: 1) attack Gibraltar, 2) draw neutral Portugal into the Spanish orbit...
...British once kept prisoners of the Boer war. Here, more recently, they have interned Italians captured in North Africa. Here Nehru, who worked for Loyalist Spain, who cried out against Munich, who was shocked by Hitler's Brown Shirts and twice snubbed invitations for an interview with Mussolini, could look out bitterly on monsoon skies. Nehru alone knew what thoughts were in his mind. But once before in prison he remembered T. S. Eliot's lines...
Italian seamen had boasted that they did a thorough job of destruction when they scuttled or burned or smashed everything useful in Massaua harbor. Massaua, in Eritrea, had once been one of Mussolini's biggest naval bases outside of Italy. When the victorious British arrived its waterfront shops were in ruins, its waters choked with sunken ships...
Died. Guglielmo Ferrero, 71, famed Italian historian (The Grandeur & Decadence of Rome, The Reconstruction of Europe), veteran antiFascist; in Geneva, Switzerland. Admired by Teddy Roosevelt (for his pointed parallels between the politics of Caesar and Tammany), Ferrero launched his world reputation with a U.S. lecture tour in 1908. Under Mussolini, his gift for such parallelisms led first to his "quarantine" in Italy, then his expulsion...
Corn cribs, set up on street corners in small Kansas towns, bulged with old phonograph records. Men in overalls, streaming through factory gates in Indianapolis, dropped records into barrels. Open-mouthed caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito on Manhattan's Times Square made inviting receptacles to throw discs into. From Maine to California 1,500,000 members of the American Legion and the women's American Legion Auxiliary rang doorbells, telephoned, dashed about in cars and trucks. Out from attics, cellars, closets came dusty black records, bearing such nostalgic labels as Dardanella, Barney Google, Cohen on the Telephone...