Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Nazi press: "Mussolini was too great a person for a nation like that...
...Friend Mussolini. "One of the most outstanding men of modern times was at the head of Italy, the greatest son of Italian soil since the collapse of the ancient empire. His bearing was so loyal that conditions existed for success of the common alliance. His fall and the disgraceful insults to which he was subjected will be felt with the deepest shame by future generations of the Italian people...
...Sicilian gully, Hope had his greatest and most grateful audience: 19,000 weary men just back from battle. In exchange for gags like "I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls till I was almost four," the veterans gave him captured Lugers, dirks, Mussolini medals, tried to give him machine guns...
Thus, prophetically, did the passionate choruses of Garibaldi serenade their Austrian oppressors back in 1866, when most of northern Italy was still under the yoke. Garibaldi's War Hymn lived on as one of the most stirring of Italy's patriotic airs until Mussolini suppressed it in favor of the Fascist Giovinezza...
...more entitled to make these artistic gestures than Arturo Toscanini. The most famous of all living Italians except Mussolini and the most famous living embodiment of the art of music, the little, white-haired 76-year-old maestro had for years been using the lever of his prestige to pry at the roots of Fascism. To most Italians, who rate music as important as food and wine and a good deal more important than politics, that lever was a powerful one. To music-loving Germans (who gave him a smashing reception as conductor of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival...