Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, said Herbert Hoover to 1,800 U.S. editors and publishers in Manhattan, had drunk too deeply of the "mixed drinks" of three ghosts: "the shade of Karl Marx with his socialism, the shade of Mussolini with his dictated economy, the spook of Lord John Maynard Keynes with his . . . perpetual endowment for bureaucrats. And we have contributed an American ideology of giveaway programs. It might be called the New Generosity. It is not yet a ghost...
...Russia's October Revolution. She remembers: "We felt it was us." From then on she never wavered. When the Fascists made it a crime to praise anything Soviet, she joined the Communist underground. For 20 years of Fascist rule her hovel was a refuge for Communists fleeing Mussolini's police, but she was never caught. "In my heart of hearts I always looked to Russia," Palmira remembers. "It's been my idea of heaven all these years...
...youths wearing the badge of Italy's neo-fascist M.S.I, party rose with shouts of "Bravo! Bravo" and joined in the singing of the onetime official Fascist hymn. Singer Baker looked on perplexed, then with dawning embarrassment. By the time Covella reached the final chorus-"and for Benito Mussolini, hooray, hooray, a la la"-the police had rushed from the back of the theater, stormed the stage and bound him with handcuffs. The defiant singer was hustled off to jail under a postwar law against "defense of fascism...
...with politics. It is entirely religious." But to other Italians, and other churchmen, his gesture did not seem entirely devoid of a political background. During World War II, Blandino had served as an army chaplain in the Albanian, Greek and North African campaigns. In 1943 he had joined Mussolini's diehard "Salo Republic" in northern Italy. Does he now sympathize with Fascist principles? Replies Blandino: "A call went out for chaplains to administer spiritual comfort. A priest must not interest himself in politics...
Near war's end, Blandino was clapped into a Turin jail by Italian partisans, released after a year. He went to Switzerland and this year returned to Italy. He re-established contacts with ex-servicemen and chaplains of Mussolini's Republican Army and with the neo-Fascist Movimento Italiano Femminile (Italian Women's Movement), to whom he propounded his idea: revive the Mercedarian tradition for liberation of Italy's 20 war criminals convicted by Allied tribunals, and 1,600 sentenced by Italian courts. Embittered ex-servicemen, theological students, relatives of prisoners gave him support-offers...