Word: mussolini
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...sunny Atlanta courtyard, men with only one arm and men on crutches throw baseballs at dummies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. In another, men with hooks for hands, in airplane splints and on crutches take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight...
Super-careful South African censors finally released a story of the days when the Italians were rampant and the Allies unprepared. Back in 1940 a South African crew took an ancient Valencia biplane loaded with supplies, ferried them to a Kenya outpost south of Mussolini's then-powerful Ethiopian empire. At dinner an engineer told them about a nearby Italian fort "simply waiting to be bombed...
...against the Atlantic Charter? That younger Britons may be was indicated by a recent debate at the Oxford Union-most famous sounding board of youthful English opinion. The Union's 1933 vote against bearing arms "for King and country" echoed round the world, is said to have persuaded Mussolini that Britain would not fight...
...military leaders. From 146 B.C., year of the destruction of Carthage, to 49 B.C., when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon on his way to make himself dictator, the story of Rome is told in terms that should be familiar to everyone who has seen a Hitler and a Mussolini rise to power with the support of the multitudes. Unlike modern precursors and advocates of totalitarianism, the Gracchi, Marius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar had no great desire to overturn republican institutions. But they were pushed along the road to dictatorship by the fecklessness of the opposition...
...first recruits in wealthy Westchester County. But few have had the chance to become as well-traveled as Founder Wofford. Son of an executive of huge Prudential Insurance Co., he circled the globe with his grandmother at eleven, spent a Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, was in Rome when Mussolini was ranting out of the League of Nations. He remembers Shanghai as it looked after it was bombed by the Japanese...