Word: mussolini
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...Eritrea's capital, Asmara, from which Mussolini launched his 1935 attack on Haile Selassie, red, yellow and green striped Ethiopian flags broke out. Barelegged, open-sandaled Ethiopian troops swung smartly up the broad Corso Italia, replacing the departed British Tommies, who had held the land in trust for eleven years...
...best in Europe. SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann, Himmler's onetime personal representative, is opening an import-export business in San Sebastian. Former Gestapo Officer Ernst Hammes has a de luxe gift shop in Madrid's fashionable Serrano district. Scarfaced SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, daredevil paratrooper who snatched Mussolini from his mountain prison in 1943, and dressed his killers in U.S. uniforms during the Bulge breakthrough, has leeched on to the Spanish military...
...shows, too, and convincingly, that for Mainardi to have been a young Fascist was the most natural thing in the world, especially after Mussolini gave him a dramatic black shirt and a shiny pistol. Adolescent it all was-except perhaps for the otherwise respectable adults who were leading the way or cheering the Mainardis from the sidelines...
...political involvement in Europe in 1938 . . . President Roosevelt never sent congratulations to Mussolini for arranging the Munich Conference, as alleged by Randolph Churchill . . . The President's telegram to Mussolini on Sept. 27 was a final appeal asking Mussolini to intervene with Hitler...
Sagging Slaves. As might be expected in so vast a show, 90% of the work slavishly follows fashion. Although Russia & Co. boycotted it, the exhibition sags with samples of the "social realism" which Mussolini and Hitler favored and Stalin now finds useful: photographic renderings of put-upon people, marching masses, fighting men and conquerors-over-all. These match in dullness the acres of canvas set to the prevailing wind of abstractionism...