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...Zaleshoff might be a bit much. But he is the wonderful stuff of a racidal's fantasy nonetheless. He reappears in Cause For Alarm (1939). He cons a British engineer Marlow, (our hero) in Milan to do some unwitting work for him, and soon they are fleeing Mussolini's police across the countryside of northern Italy. While hiding is a railroad depot they are captured, and the fascist official leaves the pair in a workshed under the guard of two railroad workers while he fetches more help. To Marlow, the workers look sullen and threatening, but Zaleshoff begins loftily addressing...
From a cottage in Rapallo, Italy, Pound promoted his monetary and racist ideas as energetically as he had promoted poetry. When Mussolini granted him an audience, he was utterly taken in. "There is too much future," he wrote in a floating euphoria, "and only me and Muss to attend...
...work is audacious, abrasive, full of wild, coarse humor and high feeling. Unlike Bertolucci she is not a cinematic visionary. Her roots are more traditional. In Love and Anarchy, Wertmuller considered the short-fused political passion of a peasant (played by Giannini) who had come to Rome to assassinate Mussolini. In The Seduction of Mimi, she observed how a laborer (Giannini again) allowed his socialist politics to be bought off by employers and mobsters. Swept Away concerned a helplessly aggressive sailor (yes, Giannini) shipwrecked on a desert island with a wealthy woman (Melato...
...July, 1936, when as the commander of the Army of Africa he led the "nationalist" rebel forces in their campaign to overthrow the legitimately elected Popular Front government of the Second Republic. In a bloody three-year conflict, Franco's armies, aided crucially by Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, overcame the underequipped soldiers of Republican Spain. Troops chanting the slogan "Long live Death" destroyed the hopes of workers and peasants for a transformed Spain...
Franco came to power in 1939 after a three-year civil war in which a million Spaniards died. He was assisted by the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini, and Spain became a proving ground for weapons and techniques later used in World...