Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Courage Has Bread." By his exhortations, his purges, and by caging the most dangerous of his defectionists, Mussolini has used the threat of invasion to tighten his control over Italy. But despite an apparently growing attitude of rebellion against German domination, he has failed to regain the prestige he once held among those who thought he was un jurbo (an astute fellow), or among the trusting who believed that, regardless of his Party's corruption, Mussolini had the best interests of his people at heart. One story indicated the Italian's cynicism: The Duce was not satisfied with...
...More than ever it was apparent that the hope for the underground, and for all Italian democrats, lies first in unconditional surrender, followed by military occupation. After that, if the Allies are wiser than they were in North Africa, the Italian people can speak for themselves. On that day Mussolini's epitaph can read...
Benito Juarez Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, born July 29, 1883, tasted the grey bread of the poor in his early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...
...Cordell Hull, slightly stooped at 71, war has brought no athletic privation. He still plays a waspish game of croquet, still addresses his opponent's ball as Hitler or Mussolini before walloping...
...remaining unused for lack of effective demand. And Socialist Laski jumps to the conclusion that, if this machine remains in private hands, the movement toward an American imperialism will be swift. World War II is a battle against counterrevolution, a battle in which the collapse of Hitler and Mussolini will mean no more than the end of an important stage in clearing the decks for a new society...