Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the war, OWI passed the word around: call Hitler & Mussolini any fighting word that comes to mind-but go easy on Emperor Hirohito...
...chance was long gone. Allied with Italy since 1927, the recipient of Hitler's favors since 1938, one of a small handful of governments to recognize Mussolini's bogus Fascist Republic last September, the men of Budapest had guessed wrong too often. From Moscow came clear hints that even Rumania might fare better in the settlements than anti-Slav, anti-Communist Hungary. To the Kremlin, Rumania under a changed regime (and minus Bessarabia) might yet become a friend, worthy to receive Transylvania; Budapest would remain the center of anti-Russian plots, a handy spearhead for any future German...
Three Men had bypassed their future. Benito Mussolini was the Man of the Year-of a special sort. He had contributed heavily toward the sanity of the world; the bullying menace that ended with pie all over his face. What had entered the stage so pompously, dressed to "live like a lion," now fell through the trapdoor in truest slapstick fashion. For a while, the trains had arrived on time, and then the plane came almost too late...
...coast. It had its Fascists who ran the monopolies and made money, its church with its superstitions and its grasp of human weaknesses. Its people went barefoot along its clay roads and never washed their children's faces. On the sides of a few houses were slogans from Mussolini, who committed the great obscenity of urging women to have even more children, and the great blunder of thinking, he could make eight million bayonets out of weeds. Poverty was in Romanoglio before the war came. Now Famine, Pestilence and Death are there...
...Romanoglio went off to war when Mussolini gave the order. They were poor, illiterate, confused and greedy. Those who still live and have made their way home are working on the roads, which, like pruning their olive trees and trimming their cabbage, is work they understand. The price they paid can be totted up in the piles of rubble that once were their homes. For there is nothing left of Romanoglio but the power of the peasantry to live...