Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mingled with the anger of editors was the strong faith that La Prensa eventually would triumph over Perón, just as Italy's Corriere della Sera had outlived Mussolini. "La Prensa apparently has lost a battle," wrote the Portland Oregon Journal, "but the war for truth won't be won by Perón, that is certain." Said the Manchester Guardian's Acting Editor J. R. L. Anderson: "Señor Perón and his friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly...
...downfall of the Roman Empire in 476 to the discovery of America in 1492 perfected a social, political, and religious unity that would answer many of our present problems. It had a common political theory based on custom and myth, and a common religion; it had no Hitler nor Mussolini nor Stalin. While "times were far from peaceful, life had more beneficial organizations and more of the elements of constructive happiness than exist in a 'civilized' world where scientific progress has been prevented to the business of killing." Maybe, say the mediaevalists, the twentieth century needs a quick flashback...
...months ago I delivered two former U.S. Navy LSMs to an Argentine firm . . . Perón's Mussolini-patterned police force had a wonderful time collecting all the TIME magazines I had aboard...
Last week Juan Peron showed the world that the totalitarianism in Argentina, however popular with his voters, can take the same form as totalitarianism anywhere, from Mussolini's Italy to Stalin's Russia. With gangster violence and drumhead judgment, his government struck another blow at a great newspaper, La Prensa, that dared to print news unfavorable to his regime. His police hounded and arrested two U.S. correspondents. If there had been any hope of a free press in Argentina, it lay shattered by the work of a night...
...Never has our family been so united as now," said Anna Maria Mussolini, youngest daughter of the late Benito. In Buenos Aires, on an extended visit with brother Vittorio, who moved to Argentina four years ago and now owns a textile mill, Anna announced that elder sister Edda, widow of Count Ciano, is also thinking of joining them...