Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance," snapped House Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon, "in which a Government employee came up to the Capitol and issued an ultimatum to the House and Senate." Against that ultimatum, the "United States Congress, the greatest legislative body in the world, that stood up to Hitler, that stood up to Mussolini, that stood up to Stalin, stampeded like a regiment dissolving at Waterloo-before a Postmaster General...
...weight with the Tory Party and with Macmillan personally than the sibilant, stern Lord Salisbury. Besides being relatives by marriage, Macmillan and Salisbury have been political allies ever since 1938 when Salisbury, along with Anthony Eden, resigned from Neville Chamberlain's government in protest at British appeasement of Mussolini. When Suez and ill-health drove Eden from No. 10 Downing Street last winter, it was Salisbury, together with Sir Winston Churchill, who persuaded the Queen to name Macmillan Prime Minister instead of "Rab" Butler (who had once supported Chamberlain's appeasement...
...other major dissent from the Tory leadership was foreign policy. Two years before Eden, he renounced the party whip (roughly equivalent to resignation from the party) in 1936, in protest against the failure to impose economic sanctions against Mussolini's Ethiopian invasion...
...dweller in France, explained why he will go on declining invitations to visit the U.S.: "I have a great affection for the U.S., but as a refugee from Franco Spain, I cannot condone America's support of a dictator who sided with America's enemies, Hitler and Mussolini. Franco's power would surely collapse today without American help." The secret of Casals' youthfulness? "The man who works and is never bored is never...
...Catholic majority. He favored a gradual undermining of the Church's position rather than a direct frontal attack, picked a Polish political adventurer named Boleslaw Piasecki to lead a group of "progressive," i.e., proCommunist, Catholics. Piasecki had learned the tricks of his trade as an agent for Mussolini and later for the Gestapo, had organized shock troops to liquidate Red partisans in Poland. Picked up by the NKVD, he saved his neck by betraying his former pals...