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...Stockings. Laura Diaz is the daughter of rich Augusto Diaz, lawyer for the famous Ciano family of Leghorn. When Mussolini ousted Count Galeazzo Ciano from his cabinet in 1943, both the Ciano and Diaz families suffered. Soon after, Laura Diaz came into contact with the Communist underground, and when the Germans took over Mussolini's crumbling state she was leader of a Communist cell in Leghorn. Her public career began at a Communist convention in Milan in 1948 when she walked on to the stage wearing red stockings, red jersey, a red ribbon in her hair, presented Communist Boss...
Another Red success, as spectacular as Benito Mussolini's in the '20s, was to make China's trains run on time. Travelers on the Shanghai-Canton and Hankow-Canton runs also speak of clean sleeping berths, cheap, well-cooked meals, diners decorated with portraits of Stalin. The Communists have rebuilt the main lines destroyed between 1946 and 1949, are completing such new links as the long-planned railway from Chungking to Chengtu...
Mingled with the anger of editors was the strong faith that La Prensa eventually would triumph over Perón, just as Italy's Corriere della Sera had outlived Mussolini. "La Prensa apparently has lost a battle," wrote the Portland Oregon Journal, "but the war for truth won't be won by Perón, that is certain." Said the Manchester Guardian's Acting Editor J. R. L. Anderson: "Señor Perón and his friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly...
...downfall of the Roman Empire in 476 to the discovery of America in 1492 perfected a social, political, and religious unity that would answer many of our present problems. It had a common political theory based on custom and myth, and a common religion; it had no Hitler nor Mussolini nor Stalin. While "times were far from peaceful, life had more beneficial organizations and more of the elements of constructive happiness than exist in a 'civilized' world where scientific progress has been prevented to the business of killing." Maybe, say the mediaevalists, the twentieth century needs a quick flashback...
...months ago I delivered two former U.S. Navy LSMs to an Argentine firm . . . Perón's Mussolini-patterned police force had a wonderful time collecting all the TIME magazines I had aboard...