Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero does not appeal by argument. ('I was just realizing how much better it is to reason with these poor wayward fellows,' Plastic Man observes as he drives a left to the jaw.) He builds on the herd's dreams: he hypnotizes. Thus did Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The Superman of the cartoons is true to his sources. He is not another Horatio Alger hero or a Nick Carter; he is a super state type of hero, with definite interest in the ideologies of herdist politics...
...disposition of her colonies, he stated that "the Italian people were never in accord with Mussolini's policy of colonial expansion," and added that "whenever the Italian armies did march, they did so at the behest of the French and British foreign offices...
Minister de Gasperi was on his way to a session of Italy's first free meeting of political minds since Mussolini abolished parliamentary government 20 years ago. It was also the first to hear a woman's voice. Said good-looking Anna Maria Cingolani, a Christian Democrat and one of deeply Catholic Italy's new feminists...
...rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...
...view from the villa was superb. But Countess Edda Ciano, nee Mussolini, was not interested. "What I want most of all is that my case be settled one way or the other," she said. "There is nothing more unbearable than this waiting...