Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascists. One of these assumptions, now subject to change has been that all Fascists are pro-Axis. Rats will leave Hitler's ship as they will leave any other. Will Benito Mussolini, or his Fascist Party, stay with Hitler to the last, now that their empire is gone and invasion of Italy is a matter of time? Will Fascist Francisco Franco leave Spain hitched to the failing Axis-or will he try to proceed to the logical end of his recent dealings with the Allies, and declare Fascist Spain in on the victory...
...Alignments. As yet there could be no positive answers to the questions now arising in Europe. But men can no longer bank without reservation on their old assumptions that Franco and Mussolini and all of their kind were irrevocably committed against the Allies. Instead, the Allies must face the possibility that many a Fascist, many a bad-weather enemy will try to join the winning side-and will offer immediate and temporarily useful aid to that side. In a time of change, new facts and new alignments will have to be recognized and accepted-or rejected...
...chant "Doo-chay, Doo-chay, Doo-chay I" urged Mussolini to make an ap pearance. He did. For the first time since Dec. 11, 1941, he lifted up his chin and spoke in the Piazza Venezia...
...Lombard and Piedmontese factories last month a sudden wave of simultaneous demonstrations broke down production schedules. This month the strikes ceased-after Mussolini granted a wage increase to war workers...
...parties still have their differences, but they have agreed on at least two aims: nationalization of heavy industry, and a democratic state to succeed Mussolini's Fascist state. Said the liberal party's newspaper Italia Libera: "Although our ultimate goals differ, there is a long road along which we shall travel together...