Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself thinks in terms of more recent history. "Mussolini," he once said, "was the greatest man of our century, but he committed certain disastrous errors. I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his mistakes." On the record so far, Perón has done just that. His regime has the authoritarian marks-extreme nationalism, the leader principle, an all-powerful state, a militant single party, intolerance of opposition and retention of the form of democracy without any of ts substance. But the Peróns have not yet followed...
Haile Selassie and his people well remember that the League of Nations foundered on its failure to help them against Mussolini's Fascists in 1935. Consequently, though they have not waged war outside Africa for 13 centuries, they consider it well worth while to send a contingent to Korea, where another world organization is on trial...
...Rome's Teatro Adriano, where Mussolini used to hold Blackshirt rallies, Italian Communists gathered last week for a long-delayed seventh national party congress. Peace-Red style-was the battle cry of 748 delegates and more than 1,000 special guests...
...Stockings. Laura Diaz is the daughter of rich Augusto Diaz, lawyer for the famous Ciano family of Leghorn. When Mussolini ousted Count Galeazzo Ciano from his cabinet in 1943, both the Ciano and Diaz families suffered. Soon after, Laura Diaz came into contact with the Communist underground, and when the Germans took over Mussolini's crumbling state she was leader of a Communist cell in Leghorn. Her public career began at a Communist convention in Milan in 1948 when she walked on to the stage wearing red stockings, red jersey, a red ribbon in her hair, presented Communist Boss...
Another Red success, as spectacular as Benito Mussolini's in the '20s, was to make China's trains run on time. Travelers on the Shanghai-Canton and Hankow-Canton runs also speak of clean sleeping berths, cheap, well-cooked meals, diners decorated with portraits of Stalin. The Communists have rebuilt the main lines destroyed between 1946 and 1949, are completing such new links as the long-planned railway from Chungking to Chengtu...