Word: mussolini
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...have cheerfully taken an oath to support the democratic Constitutions of both the nation and state. It is the height of absurdity to compare [as some of the objectors have done] an oath forswearing membership in a conspiratorial antidemocratic organization with an oath supporting the dictatorship of Hitler or Mussolini . . . Some hysteria-mongers to the contrary notwithstanding, this reviewer knows from personal experience that the faculty of the University of California is as free to teach and reach conclusions in any field of study as any faculty in the country...
...middle-aged hero (Umberto Spadaro), Fascism at first is something to suffer in silence and loathe from a distance. Then it closes in until it engulfs him: it forces him to join the party or lose his job; it turns his wife and daughter into prattling Mussolini worshipers; it sends his oldest son (Massimo Girotti) to fight in Ethiopia, Spain, Albania and Russia and claims his two younger sons for the Battle of Sicily...
Most Americans don't like Francisco Franco, never have and probably never will. They didn't like the way he got to power with the help of Hitler and Mussolini, or the dictatorial way he stayed in power. In his favor it could only be said that, along with his fulminations against democracy, he had also been antiCommunist. There was one other thing to be said for Franco's Spain: its location...
...Americans and denouncing them as capitalists ... At present, most European governments are less progressive than the Truman Administration . . . We must not be too smug about European traditions . . . Between the two world wars, America reacted to the world crisis [with] Roosevelt and the New Deal, while Europe produced Hitler and Mussolini...
...looked approvingly at the businesslike troops, heard murmured appreciation from Western European colleagues. Western officers were interested in an old question: Would the Italians perform as smartly on the battlefield as they did on parade? Consensus was that the quality of Italy's army was far better than Mussolini...