Word: mussolini
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Hitler and Mussolini...
...lady's position in political history. In true Upstairs/ Downstairs tone, she is insufferably proud of knowing her place and downright snobbish about her ignorance. "Before we went to Italy," Rose recalls vaguely, "her ladyship spoke to me and told me not to mention the name Mussolini. I suppose he must have come to power not too long before that time...
...last week, Franco never relaxed the hard control he wielded over Spain for almost 40 years-not even in 1974, when he temporarily turned over his powers to Prince Juan Carlos after an attack of phlebitis. A stern, indomitable autocrat, he had outlived such contemporary dictators as Hitler and Mussolini, ancient foes like Stalin, and his old neighbor and fellow dictator, Portugal's Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...assassinations, Franco finally joined a plot by military men, fascists, monarchists and rightists of all persuasions to overthrow the Republican government. On July 17, 1936, the daring young general gained world headlines by launching a successful air and sea invasion of the Spanish mainland. Within 24 hours, Hitler and Mussolini were sending men and supplies to the rebels, and the Republic had clearly found its archadversary. Franco was proclaimed Generalissimo of the rebel forces and Chief of State in a brief ceremony at Burgos...
...sent/ Along a wall that's sheer and steep and endless, dressed/ With bits of broken bottles on its crest"). Part is due to the writer's stoic career. Like an earlier Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, Montale was a bitter antiFascist. His quiet refusal to truckle to Mussolini cost him a sinecure as library executive. Throughout World War II he supported himself by translating an astonishing variety of writers, among them Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill and Dorothy Parker. A childless widower, Montale now lives in Milan, where he contributes literary and music criticism for the daily Corriere...