Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most overripe fruit on the top branches of the corporate-state system has been cut away. "Routine" shakeups in Party organizations have occured so often in the past six months that the people can scarcely keep track of them. But they do know that Mussolini has called back into power his old stalwarts of the club-and-castor-oil era, notably such "perfect Fascists" as Roberto Farinacci, now Minister of State, and Carlo Scorza, Party Secretary...
There is no doubt that U.S. and British bombings have created panic and terror in Italian cities ; that in their desperation the Italians have cursed the men who bring the bombs, forgetting that Italian bomb ers were active in Ethiopia and Spain and that Mussolini insisted on sending a token bombing force over Britain during the blitz. This made little difference to Mussolini. He fobbed off the British as "at least civilized, because they are Europeans," knowing that his people already have a well of resentment against the British to draw on. The vigor of his campaigns against...
...most capable brains on the North American Continent; . . . now the Americans are coming back over your ports and cities to repay you with bullets and to spread death and destruction." For Italo-Americans abroad the Fascists provided another line, easily picked up by the cheapest short-wave radio: Mussolini was forced to enter World War II because Britain would not grant the "just demands" of the Italian people for "freedom from fear." This ancient outcry comes from a Mussolini-bred national psychosis that Italy has al ways been kicked around, instead of being boosted by helping hands...
...Live Dangerously." With such threads Mussolini has tried to weave a web of resistance. He has told his people that an Allied victory means enslavement to imperialist powers. He has titillated their sense of personal honor and national pride, as he did in 1935 when he defied the sanctions imposed (but not enforced) by the League of Nations during the Ethiopian campaign. Italians rallied behind him then. They may do so more generally now than the Allies expect. At least Mussolini has built up a façade of bravado, patterned on the ancient cry of the gladiators...
...black-market dealings. Scorza, tall, tough provincial Party boss who once cheated Credito Toscano out of $6,000,000, is one of the Party's most ruthless administrators, has run an almost continuous series of purges of apparently thousands of "cancroid creatures who have crept into the Mussolini structure...