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...over this country right now," a Farmers' Union leader testified before a Senate committee. Conservatives were no less apocalyptic. "Even the iron hand of a national dictator is in preference to a paralytic stroke," said Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "If this country ever needed a Mussolini, it needs one now," declared Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania. In Europe, indeed, the week of Roosevelt's Inauguration was the same week in which Adolf Hitler used the Reichstag fire to win emergency powers and suppress all opponents of his New Order for Germany...
Roosevelt's penchant for experimenting guided his chief measure for industrial revival, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and his choice of the man he put in command of it, General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson. A profane and red-faced ex-cavalryman, an admirer of Mussolini and good bourbon, West Pointer Johnson had spent the war years spurring the Selective Service System and applying the whip to the War Industries Board, which supervised the manufacturing and sale of military supplies...
...mobilized more forces in the Dozier manhunt than in the Moro case. Still, the security forces were hampered by a lack of coordination among different police and security services that were decentralized after World War II to thwart the chances of a power seizure in the style of Benito Mussolini. Says an American official: "The lessons of fascism have required the system to be decentralized and amorphous...
...least as far back as England's sporadic naval blockades of France during the Napoleonic era. In this century trade sanctions have become the warfare of first resort. The U.S. and such international bodies as the League of Nations and the United Nations have employed embargoes to punish Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain and many other countries. In almost every case these tac tics failed dismally because the target nations found new trading partners or willing smugglers to get around the restrictions. Concludes John Letiche, professor of international economics at the University of California at Berkeley...
Throughout his career, Italian culture buzzed with manifestoes, claims and counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...