Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Badoglio dictatorship was still mum on Beinto Mussulinis whereabouts. But now it urged the controlled Italian press to talk volubly on Benito Mussolini's love life. Practically every paper added details to a tale familiar to gossips: Quite by chance in a Roman swimming pool, Benito Mussonlini met voluptuous curly haired Claretta Petacci, daughter of an obscure but ambitious Roman family...
Predicting that the Italian fleet will not scuttle itself or surrender to the Germans, Professor LaPiana denounced the Badoglio administration as a "government of noted ex-Fascists, who had been in control under Mussolini...
...reaction of the Vatican is not yet known, but in "What To Do With Italy" both Salvemini and LaPiana contend that the Vatican distrusted modern democracy and supported fascism, quoting Pope Plus XI, and Cardinal Merry del Val, who called Mussolini "a man sent by Providence" and "visibly protected...
Your lurid and sinister picture of papal politics belies the Christian aims of the Vatican. Franco, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Petain were not raised up by the Pope; he makes the best of a situation and tries to improve it. He works for justice, peace, charity, for religion and human welfare...
...fail to note that the Church itself is a dictatorship that out-rivals the totalitarianism of Hitler or Mussolini...