Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions of political strategy inevitably overshadowed questions of military strategy, for two major questions as yet unsettled were clamoring for answers: ^ What policy, toward men and institutions, will the United Nations take into Europe? This question jumped out at Franklin Roosevelt the morning after Mussolini fell-when Franklin Roosevelt had not come to an agreement with himself and with Winston Churchill about their political attitude toward conquered Italy...
...Hydra-headed State Department can hardly have a clear foreign policy. The fall of Mussolini found it without any in regard to Italy (see p. 17). The initiative on policy toward postwar Germany has been seized without any competition from the U.S. by the "Free Germany Committee" setup in Russia...
...South African prison camp, Italy's leading welterweights, Gino Verdinelli and Giovanni Manca, steamed up training for a return match. The knockout of Mussolini had given the bout a red-hot political significance: Manca, winner of the first match (TIME, May 3), had become champion of the Royalists, Verdinelli, a gladiator of the Fascists. Faced with this explosive mixture, British officers, who had turned out in numbers to see the first fight, decided something had to be done. They ordered Manca and Verdinelli to put up their jump ropes, retire their sparring partners, the match had been canceled...
...Pacelli did not neglect Vatican City. About the time that Pius XI appointed Pacelli Prefect of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's (guardian of Vatican buildings), Mussolini banned the Catholic Boy Scouts and started to wipe out Catholic Action in Italy. The Pope wrote an encyclical (Non abbiamo bisogno) attacking the Fascist action, but since the Fascists controlled all the telegraph lines and cables to the outside world, Mussolini was in a position to read and reply to the encyclical before the world read...
...Lateran pacts and Concordat with Mussolini whereby the Italian Government agreed to pay the Vatican $39,200,000 in cash; to give it $52,300,000 worth of Ital ian Government bonds; to recognize Vatican City as a sovereign state; and to make Catholicism the state religion of Italy...