Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME affirms that before 1943, I was "the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism . . ." If this perhaps were true, it would be true only until 1931, when I revolted against Fascism . . . From 1931 until the fall of Mussolini in 1943, I was arrested eleven times. In 1933, I was placed in prison and then sentenced to five years on the island concentration camp of Lipari. Freed in 1938, I still remained under police control and was put in prison as a preventive measure every time a Nazi chief visited Rome. In 1939, being sent to Ethiopia...
Counter-Fury. Field Marshal Papagos (who fought and beat Mussolini's armies in 1940 and was imprisoned by the Nazis for two years) was angry, but not so furious as the newspapers supporting him. Said Athens' Apogevmatini: "If the United Center should gain power through Communist support, Papagos will not permit you to climb to power." At week's end Papagos had to tone down his supporters' exuberance: He would stand by the election results whatever they were, he said. Actually the Communist switch, aimed so nakedly at taking over the machinery of the middle...
...Alessandro Giunta, a great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte, in St. Mark's Basilica, Rome, a photographer concentrated on the bride's family and produced a memorable portrait of three tense, dry-eyed, well-dressed widows: the bride's mother, Edda Mussolini Ciano, who stood in an old II Duce pose, arms folded and jaw outjutting: the bride's two grandmothers, Rachele Mussolini and Carolina Ciano...
...years of cold war, which would be just as fatal." Echoing Malenkov, Nenni said that Russia "has no designs of conquest, since she considers her own security guaranteed." Then he had a quote from Stalin: "Our Revolution is not for export." At that point, amidst genuine laughter, someone shouted: "Mussolini said that...
Married. Raimonda Ciano, 18, only daughter of Edda Mussolini Ciano and the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, granddaughter of 11 Duce; and Alessandro Giunta, 23, great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte; in Rome...