Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, arrived in Rome last week, the Communist newspaper L'Unita printed his photograph upside down. It was no mistake, and with a little helpful prodding from L'Unita, most readers got the point. In 1945, after Italian Partisans executed Benito Mussolini and his mistress, they hanged the pair upside down in Milan...
...Congress, including T. S. Eliot, awarded the annual $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the "highest achievement of American poetry" to Ezra Pound (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), who was then in an insane asylum and under indictment for treason (he had spent the war in Italy as propaganda broadcaster for Mussolini). Some critics attacked Eliot as being chiefly responsible for the award, but the jury emphatically denied that Eliot had nominated Pound for the award, or had exerted any influence on his behalf...
...Named for the Roman House of Rondanini, which owned the statue for generations. *In 1937, Mussolini's officials had scotched the U.S. sale for another Michelangelo Pieta by put-ing a $2,500,000 export price tag on it; later an Italian bought it for about $250,000, presented it to the state...
...first months of Fascism, he was slow to realize what Mussolini stood for. But when dictatorship established itself, he turned his back on Rome. In Naples, he edited a scholarly anti-Fascist magazine called La Critica, defied the government with his book History as the Story of Liberty. Once a band of young Black Shirts threatened to storm his home, fled when confronted by Signora Croce. Beyond that, the Fascists never dared to molest the Croces. "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear," Mussolini once remarked-"Croce. And I fear him because I do not understand...
...Sigh of Relief. Other Italians understood him better. After the fall of Mussolini, they called Croce back into public life once more in Marshal Badoglio's cabinet. But his appearance was a brief one. With a sigh of relief he left public office for good, and went back home to a library that reached ladder-high ("How can a man live without books?"), and to a special Italian Institute of Historical Studies which he had long wanted to found...