Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple tastes of his guest, pomp-loving Marshal Tito even abated somewhat the imperial splendor of his parties. ("Comrades who do not have a dinner jacket will be welcome in a dark suit.") They adjourned to the Adriatic island of Brioni, where Tito lives it up in one of Mussolini's old playgrounds...
Italy may not be the mother of bureaucracy, but it has created one of the greatest broods of them all. From 70,000 bureaucrats in 1870, when Italy was united, to 635,000 under Mussolini, the government's rolls have swelled today to more than a million. As well as the government can determine (and it is not sure), it has 1,150,000 employees, whose paychecks account for half the national budget. This total includes schoolteachers, but not another 600,000 persons employed by provincial and local governments...
Ghostly survivals of Mussolini's "Second Roman Empire" still exist-the Bureau for the Colonization of Ethiopia, the Imperial African Transport Commission, the Commission for Control of Albanian Banks, etc. Under a decree of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1819, deriving from a contract made in 1594, the government still ceremoniously pays Naples $21 every year for the upkeep of military orphans. It still advertises old scholarships that pay 16?^ a year to the winner-even though it now costs 32?^ to apply. In the Rome recorder's office; all documents are still laboriously transcribed...
Died. Gaetamo Salvemini, 83, Italian-born, U.S.-naturalized historian and author (What Is Culture?), longtime (50 years) professor of history (Florence, Pisa, Harvard), who fled Mussolini's Italy but continued to work his vitriolic pen against Fascism; after long illness; in Sorrento, Italy...
...noon one day last week, Rachele Mussolini stood in the family cemetery at Predappio while the body of her husband Benito Mussolini, hidden for years in a Capuchin monastery by a government conscious of its value as a symbol to neoFascists, was formally identified, then placed under a tricolor to await burial. Next day during three Masses, some 500 shouting, banner-waving Fascists broke a pledge against demonstrations, milled about the chapel, and while Rachele stood motionless, gave the blackshirt salute and knelt before the coffin. Later, Italy's old-time Duce was buried beside his blacksmith father...