Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome one day last week, church and state celebrated the 25th anniversary of Mussolini's famed pact with the Vatican, which church and state still hold solemnly binding. Flags flew, and there were services and speeches commemorating the recognition of the Pope's sovereignty over Vatican City and the designation of Roman Catholicism as the state religion of Italy. Thereafter, Italian police marked the anniversary in their own fashion...
...similarity between Saud's declaration of Arabian attitude toward Israel and Mussolini's threats of war against Greece in 1922 caused Friedrich to fear that a move toward increased power by Saud might be forthcoming...
...named his children after the heroes of Italy's risorgimento. Amintore was named after the man who wrote Hymn of the Workers, a labor union song which the Communists have since stolen. Amintore was still a bright young student, a particular whiz at math and physics, when Mussolini kicked his father out of Parliament for his liberalism...
Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
...years that followed, Teresa proved herself a staunch and loyal helpmate to both Luigi and the party, as he became the Communists' chief organizer and disciplinarian. She helped organize strikes. Whenever Luigi was carted off to a Mussolini jail, Teresa uncomplainingly took over his party chores. She fled with him to France and to Russia, fought by his side in the Spanish Civil War. In underground papers she edited, Teresa laid down the party line, and she also wrote three proletarian novels. No one ever questioned her ardor or orthodoxy. Presumably no more congenial pair existed...