Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of the upset spread in Montevideo, a delirious mob, waving handkerchiefs and banners of white, the National Party's color, rallied round a ramshackle old mansion, pushed through moldering ground-floor rooms littered with photographs of Uruguayan heroes and of Mussolini, surrounded a brass bed where an emaciated old man lay, his revolver and Gaucho knife handy on the night table. "Patriarch," cried a leader, "we bring you victory!" Luis Alberto de Herrera, 85, the cantankerous spellbinder chief of the Nationals, bounced out of bed and spun about in a round of backslapping...
...regimes have an understandable tendency towards self-perpetuation, and are, in general, reluctant to give up power. Once in, it is almost impossible to dislodge them; when they do leave finally, the situation is not much better than when they took over. There is no lack of instances: Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, Nasser, and even Kemal Ataturk. It is indeed ironical that even Ataturk was not able to instill a democratic spirit amongst the Turks, nor prepare Turkey for democracy, with constitutional rights and safeguards, as daily events there today illustrate...
Died. Breckinridge Long, 77, Missouri-born lawyer, horse breeder, bon vivant, art collector, moderately pro-Mussolini U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1933-36), twice (1917-20, 1940-44) Assistant Secretary of State, lifelong Wilsonian, internationalist Democrat who was among the leaders of the Roosevelt-for-President forces at the 1932 Chicago convention; after long illness; at his sumptuous country home, Montpelier Manor, near Laurel...
June 4. (Radio Damascus): "U.S. policy now shows its true nature-a serpent sinking venom into innocent bodies . . . The spirits of Hitler and Mussolini have now entered the body of Secretary of State Dulles, who has now become a Nazi and a Fascist...
Fanfani is the youngest Italian Premier to take office since Mussolini in 1922. A teen-ager when Fascism began, he saw the corporate state as the ideal, and in what he calls a "temporary aberration" turned to Fascism. "Some day," he once wrote, "the European continent will be organized into a vast supranational area guided by Italy and Germany. Those areas will take authoritarian governments and synchronize their constitutions with Fascist principles...