Word: palazzos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Change. Independent Douglas was-dogmatic about another party too: his proposed alliance of farmers, workers and consumers should have no truck with the Communists. In 1935, he and his wife went abroad, stood in the Palazzo Venezia the day Mussolini sent Italy into the Ethiopian war. Douglas, who had become a Quaker in 1920, turned away from pacifism then & there. He heard and approved Franklin Roosevelt's warnings against dictators. And he discovered that Roosevelt had cribbed a lot of the Socialists' ideas. He decided there was indeed a logical place in American life...