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...finance his invasion of Ethiopia, where the thaler was legal currency, Mussolini pressured Austria into allowing him to mint the coin. To counter Mussolini, the British began minting thalers without permission. When World War II broke out, both sides furiously coined thalers to bribe African and Asian tribesmen...
...your political heroes in history?" he was asked. Caouette's brisk rejoinder: "Mussolini and Hitler...
...storm broke, and it wasn't helped any by what Caouette had gone on to say in the magazine: "I admire Mussolini's qualities as a leader and I regret that he was a fascist. I admire in Hitler his economic reforms and I consider that he brought his people out of misery. I regret that he employed for war instead of for peace the ideas which...
Nowhere in the Western world, save Cuba, does a government own and run so many businesses as in Italy. The practice took hold during the Fascist corporate state days of Benito Mussolini, and has been kept alive by a strange coalition of left-leaning politicians and swashbuckling economic bureaucrats anxious to expand their empires. Almost every time an Italian rides a train, plane or ship, lights up a cigarette, salts his food or gasses up his car, he is patronizing a government monopoly. And pretty soon he will be doing so whenever he switches on the lights...
...Rome, a fleet of 200 sound trucks blared the strident propaganda of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.), and in the air relays of planes zoomed over rooftops, trailing the names of M.S.I, candidates. The heirs of Mussolini reportedly spent more than $3,000,000 during the four-week campaign, but when the votes were counted it was clear that the Missini (the nickname derived from the party initials) had misspent their lire. The Fascist share of the total vote rose slightly from 9.7% in 1960 to 10%; a mere 19,000 new M.S.I, voters (new total...