Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week in a mock petition-to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito-which was circulated in New York...
Last week her independence again was threatened-by the successors of the Romans who conquered Greece in 146 B.C. Before World War II Greece accepted a British guarantee of independence, but last week Great Britain was fighting for her own life. So Italy's Benito Mussolini, whose sense of vengeance, of history and of opportunity is as keen as Adolf Hitler's, saw his chance to add a piece to his dreamed of 20th-century Mediterranean Empire...
Hitler's artists (nearly all unknown outside Germany) had sheep-footed it neatly along their Führer's academic path. Patriotism, heroism, war and svelte, 100% Nordic nudes dominated the show, with many busts and figures of Mussolini and Critic Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well...
...people understand he is their firm and lasting friend. Although round little Dictator Vargas frequently makes fascist noises and although his country is well stocked with Germans and Italians, it distresses him to hear that many U. S. citizens think he would be the tool of Hitler or Mussolini. Truth is that internally the Vargas Estado Novo (New State) is about as autarchic as they come, but in external relationships Brazil wants no territory, needs protection, is hungry for foreign capital. This fits in neatly with U. S. foreign policy, so Senhor Vargas is a friend...
...whom everybody in Brazil but his enemies refers to as "Getulio" is no genius like Hitler, no actor like Mussolini, but a shrewd, opportunistic, honest politician, with a sincere desire to improve the lot of his people and not too many scruples about the means he employs. Brazilians say he can take off his socks without removing his shoes. He is a Gaucho from the rolling cattle country of Rio Grande do Sul, southernmost of Brazil's 20 federal States. His father who is still living was a General and Getulio grew up in Sao Borja, where lived...