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Many of his opponents have called De Gaulle a Fascist, a charge for which there is some justification. a theoretical point of view, De Gaulle's view of parliamentary democracy and of the function of a leader highly similar to the Fascist one. and Mussolini condemned parliamentary democracy for its failure represent the interests of the nation a whole. The parties, they said, out only for the interests of the groups they represented. The sum of group interests was far different from the national interests, which only be preserved by the leader of a single man, who was above...
...beautiful visitor, Soraya's casino host sportingly volunteered: "She seemed to count pretty good." O'Brian, asked if he had serious matrimonial designs on his date, drawled: "You'd better ask the princess." Soraya, once a queen but never a princess, only smiled mysteriously. When Romano Mussolini was a boy, his father, Italy's Dictator Benito Mussolini, who sawed passably on a violin, banned jazz in the country because it was "an expression of an inferior race." Romano and his older brother Vittorio soon became clandestine jazz buffs. Vittorio smuggled U.S. jazz records into the Mussolini...
...believes, for example, that financing communications and education is more important than building cities like Brazil's new capital, Brasilia. "I saw in Italy some of the most beautiful buildings there were built by Mussolini," he notes "Beautiful buildings are just one criterion...
...Italy's Egidio Ortona for what he was about to say, Slim brought up a 24-year-old ghost: the fateful day in 1936 when the League of Nations failed its biggest test, the day when Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie vainly appealed for help against Mussolini's invading Fascist legions. "Sanctions were not imposed," said Slim, "and it was not long before it was seen that many countries of Europe, one after the other, were becoming the Ethiopias of the future...
...letter, the sizable number of deaf people, for whom subtitled movies constitute almost the only satisfactory theatrical experience. In addition the preservation of the original sound acts as a check against the insidious kind of distortion and censorship that characterized the dubbed versions of imported films distributed throughout Mussolini's Italy during...