Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Italian Fascist condemned by a court of Italy's national government, Caruso had been the most hated man in Rome since Mussolini sent him down from the north to be chief of the capital's police and quell the rising opposition to war and Fascism. He had been a practising sadist. He had kept a private apartment where he personally tortured prize victims. He had been lame since the day a gnat flew into his eye as he raced northward in an open car to escape the Allies. The car had swerved into a ditch. Caruso broke...
This week the Government tried to try Mussolini's blood-stained police chief, Pietro Caruso. Howling Romans surged into the courtroom, demanded Caruso for themselves. Police hid him in a back room. Balked, the mob turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from...
...Revolutions were ever anti-artistic. The French Revolution did not produce a single opera. Not a single opera, mind you, was composed to praise freedom." The audience began to hiss. Cried Ludwig: "I have met and interviewed three dictators [Mussolini, Kemal Ataturk, Joseph Stalin]. . . . I have found that each was a great music lover. . . ." He summed up by declaring that music, like religion, is a force that can be used by friend or foe alike. Commented the chairman of the Congress, Lawrence Morton: "It was in an excess of tolerance and democracy . . . that we allowed Mr. Ludwig to speak...
...born in England, reared in Dayton, Ohio, began acquiring European background on trips abroad with her husband, Francis J. McCormick, a Dayton importer. In 1921 she became a free-lance contributor to the Times, soon landed a fulltime, roving job. She was one of the first reporters to spot Mussolini as a coming leader of Italy...
...more than 20 years of roving an uneasy Europe, she has interviewed nearly all the top history-makers, including Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, De Valera, Blum, Dollfuss, Schuschnigg. She is the only woman ever to serve on the governing editorial council of the New York Times. In 1937 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence. For her, President Roosevelt regularly violates his rule against private interviews with reporters...