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Russia donned Mussolini's old mantle as Protector of Islam. Syria and Lebanon had protested against the presence of British and French troops. Tireless Ed Stettinius (who did an effective job of conciliation at UNO) finally got British and French agreement to withdraw "as soon as practicable." Vishinsky, who had argued the strong Levantine case brilliantly, would have none of this compromise...
Writing in the New York Catholic weekly, the Commonweal, Law Professor Max Ascoli, who fled Mussolini's Italy, called Giannini's paper neoFascist, explained: ". . . Its substantial permanent characteristic is its hatred of democracy, of competitive political parties. . . . Neo-Fascism tries to debase the people into a rabble kept happy and distracted with solaces and carnivals of all types. . . . Neo-Fascism does not need great leaders...
Salvemini, a former professor of History at the University of Florence, left Italy in 1929 after opposing Mussolini from the start. Since 1933 he has held a post here, created from a fund left in honor of the noted Italian poet and liberal Lauro de Bosis...
...movement to discover whether there are dangerous seeds within. One of the most recent analyses, an article by Max Ascoli in Commonweal, credited the growth of these periodicals to the Italians' desire to give vent to their restlessness now that they are no longer under the thumb of Mussolini...
...queried Salvemini snapping his fingers. To say that all Italians or Germans are Fascists or Nazis is Idiotic, but there are still a great many Nazis and Fascists left who would like to get back into control. Also, there are many Italians who, without being Fascists, think of the Mussolini era as "the good old days...