Word: mussolini
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...slogan used by Premier Diem-"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"-is the literal translation of what Benito Mussolini said some 30 years...
...Some Fascist posters, signed by Mussolini, did in fact add the final phrase, "Se muoio, vendicatemi...
...Mussolini and Diem owe the slogan to its originator, the Royalist La Rochejaquelin, who shouted the same enjoinder-in French-to his Catholic followers during the Wars of the Vendee (1793), a vain counterrevolution against anticlerical republican revolutionaries...
...fealty. In Central Europe it ceased to be a pledge of loyalty to the sovereign in the late 18th century, when Austrian Emperor Joseph II snatched his hand from subjects' lips with the cry: "It isn't there for someone to wipe his nose on!" More recently Mussolini, who frowned on the custom in any form, tried to discourage il baciamano. He might as well have tried to suppress spaghetti. The Nazis also deplored the Handkuss- good Germans were meant to give the Hitler salute instead-but der Führer himself was often photographed with his forelock...
...Isabelle Lauder Cochrane, who came to Rome from Boston, married Salvatore Cortesi, the Associated Press's man in Rome, and went to work for the Times. She was succeeded on her death in 1916 by a daughter, Elizabeth Arnaldo took over in 1921 and stayed 17 years-until Mussolini decreed that no Italian could work for the "foreign" press. The Times sent Cortesi to Geneva, Mexico City, and finally to Buenos Aires, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his bold coverage of the repressive Perón regime. In 1946 he went back to Rome. Cortesi...