Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giuseppe Sotgiu, 52, once a poor but very clever lad from Sardinia, had worked his way through school and taken a degree in jurisprudence with the highest honors. A onetime Socialist newspaperman and then a law professor, he emerged as a Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored for his anti-Fascist record. It was he who acted as defense counsel for the journalist who first published the allegation that Wilma Montesi had been murdered. At that time Giuseppe Sotgiu indignantly declaimed: "This Montesi case stigmatizes a whole putrid and corrupted society, a privileged class which is perverse...
...began it with his Pace e Libertá campaign (TIME, Nov. 1). Last week Rome's influential II Tempo took up the history of bald and boisterous Vincenzo Moscatelli, a Communist Deputy and member of the party's Central Committee. In 1932 Comrade Moscatelli was caught by Mussolini's police and sentenced to 16 years in prison; that gave him a certain claim to fame as an anti-Fascist hero, and even entitled him to a seat in Parliament after the war, as a "Senator by right...
Catcalls from the left began. Togni stood his ground. "I fought for Italy," he shouted, "when many of you Communists were serving in Mussolini's Fascist militia and in the Fascist Party." That set off a ten-minute outburst of invective. When it quieted down, Togni resumed: "I would like to know how many ex-Fascists are in your ranks. Also, I would like to know how many ex-spies of the OVRA [Mussolini's secret police] there...
...Giacomo Pellegrini, presently sitting in the Parliament as a Communist Senator, slipped into Italy from France in 1938, was caught almost immediately by the OVRA, saved his skin by offering to spy for Mussolini's police. He betrayed half a dozen underground comrades. This story was told in great detail, with names, dates, places and documentary excerpts...
Christmas Every Day. Elsa entertained kings and queens, broke bread with half the British Cabinet, got on first-name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just...