Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on the 24th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, Fascist banners fluttered from Roman public buildings, pamphlets glorifying Il Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...much of a Fascist was Giannini? Homo's brisk leap from a weak fifth to at least a strong third among Italian parties made that Italy's No. 1 political question. The pudgy onetime theatrical producer (who looks like a jovial Eric von Stroheim) denounced Mussolini, of course, but he also said: "You cannot govern without exercising dictatorial power." His program was vague. On domestic questions it was a hash of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wallace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but with a strong flavor of Huey Long. Playing no favorites, Giannini hailed the Republican sweep...
...after five years in exile, he had again made his peace with the Party. He says that "Mussolini, I am sorry to say, liked me very much" for a time, but in later years Malaparte appealed successfully to Count Ciano for protection against the Duce's wrath. When the war came he had no trouble getting accredited to German armies in the Ukraine, Poland and Finland. The publisher's jacket, which tells none of this, describes Malaparte only as a man who dodged the Gestapo and ducked the Fascists...
...Both had felt differently about the lynched Mussolini. The Times scooped the world with a front-page picture of the Duce and his mistress, taken before their bodies were strung up. But there were then many who doubted whether Mussolini was really dead; nobody needed pic torial evidence of the end of Nürnberg's eleven...
...palace, splintering furniture, shattering windows before they were halted 100 feet from Premier Alcide de Gasperi's office. Three hours later, they finally drifted off. Behind them they left two dead and 141 injured in Rome's worst riot since the angry days which had spawned Mussolini's regime...