Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberated Genie. In a way, Mussolini set the stage for Italy's movie renaissance by building Cinecitta and granting state subsidies. But he also dictated the propaganda trash which was the industry's main prewar product. After liberation, Italy's democratic government resumed the subsidies. But Italy's able young film boss, Under Secretary of State Giulio Andreotti, 33, onetime journalist and underground fighter, wisely kept hands off the product. Result: such imaginative directors as Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica had free play...
...than had the United States. The "holier than thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich is wholly unwarranted, the more so since-a fact seldom adverted to in the United States-President Roosevelt was among those who sent a telegram to Signor Mussolini congratulating him on the calling of the Munich Conference...
...promise to resurrect the old days when Italy strutted before the world as a first-class power, when decisions were made for, not by, the people, and when the Duce took care of everyone. Most important of all, the M.S.I, won backing from among the same group that financed Mussolini's rise-rich landowners and industrialists who fear even De Gasperi's mild reform program and want insurance against change...
...authentic Italian heroes of World War II. He commanded the two-man submarines that crept into Alexandria Harbor one dark December night in 1941, blowing up H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and H.M.S. Valiant and for a time paralyzing the British in the Mediterranean. When the beaten Mussolini fled to north Italy and founded his short-lived Fascist republic, Borghese went along, served as chief of staff .of a nonexistent navy. For his cruelty toward partisans and hostages, Borghese was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment...
Under Any Name. On the speaker's stand, Borghese talks loftily and in generalities. The more raucous Fascist political effects are left to the moth-eaten old (69) Lion of Ethiopia, Rodolfo Graziani, recently arrested for giving the Fascist salute at the funeral of Mussolini's sister...