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...movement. Yet Christian Democracy's three allies in the campaign all have their roots in Italy's long and emphatic anticlerical past: The Republicans, the party born of Garibaldi and Mazzini. One of its chief figures, Randolfo Pacciardi, fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco and Mussolini's volunteers, is now De Gasperi's devoted Defense Minister...
...sunlit spring, Italy does indeed wear a sheen it did not have under the plumed bumblings of the Savoys or the sawdust imperialism of Mussolini...
Riots & Parades. In an Italy tossed between Marxist riots and Blackshirt parades, Don Luigi and De Gasperi tried desperately to head off Fascism by proposing a coalition with the Socialists, but their efforts failed. After Mussolini took over, Sturzo fled into exile in 1924, and De Gasperi became leader of the party...
...quickly got on Mussolini's black list-he dared to condemn the Fascist murder of Socialist Giacomo Matteotti and to ask the King to dismiss // Duce...
Over & over again, Rommel pleaded with Hitler and Mussolini to send him gasoline and ammunition. At one point he noted sadly: "It is sometimes a misfortune to enjoy a certain military reputation. One knows one's own limits, but other people expect miracles, and set down a defeat to deliberate cussedness...