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Fortnight ago Cantachiaro dug its spurs into a Benito Mussolini speech, delivered in Milan. Headlines and acetous comments derided the ex-Duce as "delirious ... a Nero who fiddled all Italy into ashes," and his followers as "scum in an advanced state of decay." Explained Editor Monicelli: "We offer the complete text [of Mussolini's speech] to our readers with the wish that . . . the last remains of this tragic buffoonery . . . should be swept away...
Next day the Communist Unità gave out a screech that smothered Cantachiaro's crow: "A weekly paper which calls itself satiric and anti-Fascist printed yesterday the complete text of Mussolini's speech, thus offering readers a most beautiful piece of Fascist propaganda. . . . This is an act of evident collaboration ... an act of sabotage. . . . The paper which does it must be suppressed and the responsible person arrested...
Franklin Roosevelt was picked in 1932-for winning a landslide election on a program of government economy. He was Man of the Year again in 1934, but not for economy. (That year Mussolini, Harry Hopkins and Huey Long also rated high in reader nominations.) In 1933 came NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson-then flying high with the Blue Eagle...
...associated with an organization which called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
...wake of Benito Mussolini's African conquests in the 1930s, the Roman Catholic Church sent a host of missionaries swarming into Ethiopia. Their aim: to "reclaim" for the Catholic faith the five million members of Ethiopia's ancient Christian Coptic Church. Since then Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God and Emperor of Ethiopia, has taken a very dim view of missionaries in general, Catholic missionaries in particular...