Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...helped to sell in 1909 was Il Popolo, edited by the fiery Socialist-patriot Cesare Battisti in the city of Trent, then Austrian, but ceded to Italy after the War. Editor Battisti, always short handed, was assisted by the General Secretary of the local Socialist trade unions, one Benito Mussolini, an Italian youth who had worked for a time as a hod carrier in Switzerland and then picked up enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned up editorial and publicational odd jobs innumerable...
Amusing is the tale of how Scribe Mussolini, unused to doing such long pieces, wearied of his novel and threatened to kill off Claudia with intent to bring the Romanzo to a close. "For Heaven's sake, don't!" Editor Battisti would cry. "The subscriptions are being renewed splendidly...
...Story is told by Novelist Mussolini with kinetic gusto, occasional pathos, and incessant priest-baiting, cardinal-baiting and even Pope-baiting. Choosing the 17th Century as his period, he pithily sets scene, sketches characters...
...Duce v. II Papa. The cold and formal relations existing today between the Government of Italy and the Vatican are due, in no small measure, to that shadow of mutual suspicion still cast by the original anti-Roman Catholic proclivities of Signor Mussolini, which loom so large in the pages of Claudia...
Many a Papist sincerely believes that the Dictator has not changed his spots, and considers him to be a purely secular Despot who tolerates and uses the Church for his own ends. Recently when Signor Mussolini felt himself strong enough to suppress all Italian Papist youth organizations, such as the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts, he did so (TIME, April 9). On the other hand Il Duce extends to Il Papa every formal consideration, professes a strong desire to negotiate a Concordat with the Holy See, and retains in his Cabinet as Minister of Colonies famed Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican...