Word: nitti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Babies' Hands. In his memoirs Signor Francisco Nitti, the Italian Prime Minister (1918-20) now declares: "During the War France, in common with other Allies, including our own Government in Italy, circulated the most absurd inventions to arouse the fighting spirit of our people. The cruelties attributed to the Germans were such as to curdle our blood. We heard the story of poor little Belgian children whose hands were cut off by the Huns. After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood...
...this most virulent of anti-Fascist news organs is distributed throughout Italy was revealed last week at Baltimore, U. S. A., by its editor, spruce Dr. Vincenzo Nitti, son of the exiled onetime Prime Minister Francesco Nitti who now resides in Paris...
...Black Bird, explained visiting Editor Nitti, is printed at Paris in editions of 12,000 on thinnest India paper. Once in an envelope an issue of this news organ can no more be detected in the mail than a sheet of common note paper. Thus the entire edition of 12,000 copies is mailed into Italy, despite the ban on anti-Fascist literature. As an added precaution, each edition is mailed outside of Paris, from a city which changes from week to week...
Commenting generally, Dr. Nitti said: "The wealthy class in America . . . approve of Fascismo because, in their opinion, it is a sort of strike breaker and wage reducer. . . . They do not look further...
...killed him, drove his wife insane. These blows were struck many months ago, at Montecatini, in Tuscany (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925). It was only last week that their full effect was felt. Never again will Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Italian "Aventine Opposition," onetime Colonial Minister under Premier Nitti, stand up to oppose Benito Mussolini. The assassins are known but protected by the last amnesty. Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned as Secretary General of the Fascist party (TIME, April 12), stated publicly while holding that office: "I cannot deplore the attack upon Signer Amendola...