Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once before, you wrote, "Mussolini felt badly" but I let it pass, thinking that perhaps his "fine Italian hand" had become calloused (perhaps petrified) and you were using "feel" as a transitive verb...
...political dictatorship of Benito Mussolini had given way to a military dictatorship propped up by the generals, aristocrats and high clerics. But the people, having broken the bonds of 21 years of artificial national unity, did not want the new regime. From lukewarm collaboration they shifted now to bitter hostility. Italy had reached the opening stage of civil...
...people turned frustrated and sullen under the new repression. Those of their leaders who had not been seized by the Badoglio police in the first days of open jubilation over Mussolini's fall went underground again. Now by clandestine press and radio they declared civil war: "Italy arise! . . . Insorgere (revolt)! . . . The Government of Badoglio is Fascism without Mussolini." In the popular front against Italy's traditional rulers-the militarists, the aristocracy and the clerics-stood five parties: ^ Socialists, the biggest group, their ranks reformed three years...
...Mussolini, who did not hesitate to use poisonous gas through Badoglio against defenseless people . . . should certainly not be permitted to end his days in safe retirement. . . . Ethiopia is less interested in vengeance for the past than in justice for the future. . . . Much more important . . . [is] the building and maintaining of international institutions that will prevent the rise of political bullies trampling on the rights of small nations...
Anthony Eden corrected an aged rumor that he had once been snubbed by Italy's forgotten man: "I never had a row with Mussolini. I found Mussolini unnegotiable, and he still...