Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race up and over the Apennines from Brescia to Rome and back, is known as the "race of the 7,000 curves." It is one of the most dangerous road races in the world (in 1938, when a driver plowed his car into a crowd and killed 23 people, Mussolini banned the Mille Miglia, and it stayed banned for eight years). This week, as exciting and almost as bloody as ever, the 21st Mille Miglia again brought the world's fastest cars roaring over the mountains...
Nineteen years ago, a complacent United States sat back behind its ocean wall and watched Mussolini march through Ethiopia. Most Americans, having scarcely heard of Ethiopia, argued that this country should not get mixed up in other people's wars. One year ago, few Americans knew the difference between Viet-Nam and Viet-Minh. They only knew that France was fighting a guerilla war in Indo-China. Clearly, for the average citizen, here was someone else...
...Chamber of Deputies casually inquired of Premier Mario Scelba if he "intends to ask the U.S. Government for an act of clemency" in behalf of the pixilated U.S. poet, Ezra (Pisan Cantos) Pound, 68. After more than 30 years as an expatriate. Pound began spouting the Fascist line for Mussolini in World War II broadcasts from Rome and Milan. But it was hard to define just what might constitute "clemency" for Pound. In 1945 he escaped trial for treason because he was adjudged insane, and has since whiled away his declining years translating Confucius in a Washington, D.C. mental hospital...
...Kesselring is bitter about his old Axis partners. The Italians showed "poor fighting quality." They did not take the war "with the seriousness demanded." They hoarded "vast stores of unused war material." Allied assaults on Italian divisions "invariably resulted in loss of the position." Reflecting on the overthrow of Mussolini, Kesselring writes: "It was only to be expected that as the war went on the Italians would try to make things easier for themselves by ratting to the other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino, Siena...
...proceedings. The Communists, for example, print their official newspaper, L'Unità, in a government-controlled printing plant. Pietro Nenni's Red-affiliated Socialists were the first to get specific eviction notes. They were told they had three months to vacate their Milan headquarters, a building where Mussolini founded his Fascist fighting squads...