Word: mussolini
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...postwar turmoil, Victor Emmanuel, appraising unrest at home and tottering dynasties abroad, handed Italy over to Benito Mussolini. It was the first -and last-time he ever defied his ministers; henceforth he was impotent to prevent his downfall. But Benito, the blacksmith's son, promised to look after the little king. The Italian people paid the price for 23 years...
They were busy and important days for Victor Emmanuel. He read long and complicated reports, reviewed parades, pinned medals on heroes and put wreaths on graves. An American visitor was told in 1927: "The most wonderful thing about Mussolini is his loyalty to his King." The words were spoken by King Victor Emmanuel III; by that time a lot of Italians would have disagreed. When Il Duce declared war against Ethiopia, il piccolo swiftly calculated: "If we win I shall be King of Abyssinia; if we lose, I shall be King of Italy...
...brief for free speech as forceful as Milton's Areopagitica, he drew and quartered the censors who dared fool with his plays. Later he was to praise the death's-head trio of totalitarianism: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin...
...Ideal of Conspiracy." Quietly the Communists had mobilized buses and trucks all over Italy. Before the government of Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi quite knew what was up, thousands of partisans (mostly Communist) had converged on the capital. People who could remember 1922 thought that it made Mussolini's march on Rome look like a clumsy straggle of Boy Scouts...
...program. In making loans to businesses through the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, there was grave danger that the government might gain control of so many companies that Free-Trader Einaudi would find he had no course but to set up a state-controlled economy. In this same fashion, Mussolini's state-run holding company (Istituto di Ricostruzione Industriale) had gained control of an enormous part of the economy...