Word: mussolini
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Fascismo. From a frowzy palazzo in Rapallo, Italy, he began sending out ranting political letters dated by the Fascist calendar. Friends found him extolling the "order" Mussolini had brought, prophesying wonders for Fascism, and grunting over the mysteries of politics and Social Credit...
...people of Europe and America how they could avoid war by learning the facts about money." He spoke ruefully: "It's all very well to die for an idea, but to die for an idea that you can't remember. . . ." He struck a conspiratorial tone: "I took Mussolini an economic theory that would have blown the roof off Europe...
...leaders of Naziism had undoubtedly conspired for aggressive war, and had then waged it according to horrendously detailed plans. But the prosecution's premise-the responsibility, of comparatively few-was all too familiar. In the years when Mussolini and Hitler were rising, just such theories had led the libertarian world to dismiss Fascism and Naziism as the work of a few bullyboys...
...Athens. Liberalism, as a political philosophy, is scarcely 100 years old. It is practically impossible to snare it in a neat net of definition. But its manifestations are everywhere. Its vigor, says Author Orton, is proved by the roster of its raging enemies. Among them he lists: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Pope Pius IX, Professor Harold Laski. "Dogmatists and determinists of the red or the black, defenders of the tyranny of men or majorities, exponents of class war, racial war, or national war, have discovered beneath their differences a common determination to give political liberalism a premature burial." It is still...
...Mario Roatta, 58, Mussolini's chief of staff and head of secret police: sentenced to life imprisonment, but still at large after his sensational escape last March...