Word: mussolini
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...youths wearing the badge of Italy's neo-fascist M.S.I, party rose with shouts of "Bravo! Bravo" and joined in the singing of the onetime official Fascist hymn. Singer Baker looked on perplexed, then with dawning embarrassment. By the time Covella reached the final chorus-"and for Benito Mussolini, hooray, hooray, a la la"-the police had rushed from the back of the theater, stormed the stage and bound him with handcuffs. The defiant singer was hustled off to jail under a postwar law against "defense of fascism...
...with politics. It is entirely religious." But to other Italians, and other churchmen, his gesture did not seem entirely devoid of a political background. During World War II, Blandino had served as an army chaplain in the Albanian, Greek and North African campaigns. In 1943 he had joined Mussolini's diehard "Salo Republic" in northern Italy. Does he now sympathize with Fascist principles? Replies Blandino: "A call went out for chaplains to administer spiritual comfort. A priest must not interest himself in politics...
When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...
...poor-kid-to-papal-prince story is only one. In scores of inside scenes the intimate work of the Roman Catholic Church is described, from a destitute U.S. parish to the Pope's chambers. Church politics are examined, from curates parochial gripes to Vatican policy on Hitler and Mussolini. Figures in the novel include three Popes, many cardinals and archbishops whom readers may think they recognize, a powerful Boston-Irish contractor and political boss, high personages in prewar Italian society...
Rotting corpses, noisome reminders of Mussolini's sordid victory, littered the Ethiopian bush. It was treacherous country at best, full of crocodiles and hostile tribesmen-certainly no place for an Ital ian soldier to go wandering. But the lieu tenant had a bad tooth. He had to get to an army dentist, and a short cut through the bush would cut his traveling time in half...