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...Assembly, told Assemblymen that the "hour had come for action," demanded that they pass a motion of no-confidence in the government of Premier Edgar Faure. Sitting in the visitors' gallery like a king, dispatching aides to and fro to collar Deputies, Poujade treated the Assembly to a Mussolini-like series of frowns and grins as he followed the debate. Rarely has the French Assembly seen so blatant a display from a pressure group. The Assembly, acutely sensitive to the opinion of France's shopkeepers, found it hard to refuse Poujade. Only the Catholic M.R.P., the Radical Socialists...
...Christian, and still devotes several hours a week to robust singing of Christian hymns. But when the militarists took over in the '30s to pursue their dream of empire, Hatoyama accepted it, endorsed it on a tour of foreign capitals, wrote a book praising Hitler and Mussolini. He was not close enough to the team to be completely trusted, so before war's end he was nudged into retirement; but he was not clean enough to pass the occupation's purview, and was purged (along with 201,815 other Japanese) after he had formed the postwar Liberal...
...earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florence, where he specialized in Russian literature. On the side he did free-lance work as a translator and critic. In 1935, he married Renata Nordio, a classmate of his at Florence and a student of Spanish literature. But by that time Mussolini was already in power, and the intellectual atmosphere was getting somewhat unhealthy. In 1938 he won a Litt. D. from the University of Rome, but it was Munich time in Germany, so the Poggiolis fled to the United States...
Reed did. "You talk about foreign trade. Let me remind you, gentlemen, let me remind you of our trade with Italy back in the '30s. I can still remember how Mussolini's son bragged-bragged, mind you-about trade with us, and where did it go? To make bombs to rain down on poor innocent women and children." Down went Reed's fist, papers and pencils flew helter-skelter, and Noah Mason chortled. Mississippi's Colmer, in an artistic piece of understatement, remarked to Reed: "Well, I take it you're opposed to the bill...
...Built well away from the heart of the city where the real traffic congestion lies, its ten stations (with such impressive names as Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World's Fair. City planners are hopeful that the city may grow out that way. Besides, come summer, they hope business will be better: along the subway's lonely route is the railroad station where trains leave for Ostia...