Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 19th century's Know-Nothings, with their hatred and fear of Catholics and immigrants, anchored a lineage that ran through the Ku Klux Klan to Michigan's Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, with his anti-Semitic radio broadcasts and sympathetic sermonettes about Hitler and Mussolini. Pat Buchanan wants Americans to recover their sense of shame about things like sex and pornography. But he is worse than oblivious to the political sewage. It is the medium he has chosen to swim...
...gray zone of civil war--a counterinsurgency or freedom fight, depending on who tells it, but in any case off limits to a Jesuitic fastidiousness against interfering in a sovereign state. This principle of inviolate borders underscores how much the U.N. was shaped by lessons of the 1930s: Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia, Japan's invasion of China and Hitler's devouring the appetizer of the Sudetenland. As generals tend to fight the last war, so the U.N.'s founders undertook to preserve the last peace...
...American mind with a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom: Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. He went on about obelisks and the intricate, unintelligible meanings of mystical, pseudo-Pharaonic numerologies. He sounded by turns menacing and Rotarian: a salesman in a sharp bow tie, the hallucination of Mussolini channeling Booker T. Washington. Behind him postured his son from the Fruit of Islam, in sunglasses and paramilitary Graustark...
...Mussolini remarked, "It's not so much that it is difficult to rule Italy. It's useless." Surveying the postelection wreckage, Bill Clinton may be tempted to endorse a similar thought. But the age of Mussolinis has ended (one trusts) in what are now the Western democracies. The age of pre-eminently powerful presidencies may be over as well. The focus of leadership disperses. The real "thousand points of light" in America are the new multiple centers of leadership in business, the sciences and arts, politics, religion, community life...
...Austen Chamberlain, Aristide Briand, Benito Mussolini, Eduard Benes