Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabs have faith in the justice of the United Nations' cause. The United Nations are fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese because they resent tyranny, oppression, intolerance, regimentation, imperialism, and because they want the common folk to have freedom in all respects. But the United Nations are obviously not fighting this war to perpetuate . . . the same inequalities in conduct, the same deprivation of liberties, the same roughshod denial of freedom that stigmatize the dictatorships. . . . They must seek a broad interpretation of the role of the smaller nations that want to develop their own destinies and to rule their...
...Italian people Tripoli was a proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
...Roman colony after the fall of Carthage. It was the seat of Barbary coast pirates who waged a losing war against the U.S. Navy in the early 1800s. Since 1912, when the Italians wrested it from Turkish rule, it had bolstered the Italian ego. Since 1933, when Mussolini began exploiting its riches, it had inflated Italian pride. Losing it was a shock...
...vague reports of fighting moving west in Libya. When the capitulation could no longer be kept from the people, there were lame excuses that Tripoli was no longer strategically important. But the Italians asked: "Where was Rommel?" They remembered Winston Churchill's pledge of December 1940 to rip Mussolini's overseas empire into tatters. They wondered how long it would take before the tide of battle surged across the Mediterranean to their own shores...
...Mussolini, long after his admonition to Tresca, had put the radical editor on the Fascist death list. There was belief that a Fascist agent might now have carried out the decree. But Tresca had powerful foes also in Communist ranks and among the "ex-Fascists" in this country, whose influence he bitterly fought. He was a man without a party, yet he spoke thoughts that are going through the minds of millions of his countrymen, here and in the homeland, who stand against oppression. But the disturbing thing was that Tresca's murder might have cast upon...