Word: mussolini
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...workings of the Holy See's bank, the Institute per le Opere di Religione (Institute for Religious Works). In a church that is nearly 2,000 years old, the Vatican bank is a relative newcomer. Its main holdings go back to 1929, when the Italian government under Benito Mussolini paid $83 million to the Holy See as compensation for the loss of papal territory seized from the church in 1870 by the Italian republic. Much of that money was eventually invested in real estate and Italian companies like Societa Generate Immobiliare, the giant international construction firm that later built...
Memories of Mussolini...
...Italian I resent your review of Mussolini [June 7]. The cowed and incapacitated Italian army, navy and air force that you refer to made it possible for the U.S. Army to land practically undisturbed in Southern Italy. The minimal resistance of our troops actually helped the Americans chase the Nazis and what was left of the Fascists out of the country. The Italians by then supported neither group. We had had enough of the war. Fascism is but two decades in Italy's 3,000-year history. It is too early to judge that period without bias...
...Mussolini did miscalculate and make tragic mistakes that ruined millions of people like myself. But in all fairness, history will call him a great...
Roger Angell ∙Mussolini, Denis...