Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Giovanni Vanninetti, editor of a Sondrio journal, wrote some humorous comments upon the War-decorations of the local Fascist candidate. Belisario Cantagalli, a Fascist secretary, challenged him to a duello. General Ricciotti Garibaldi, last surviving son of the great patriot, was reported very ill, was not expected to recover. His wife and daughters remain by him day and night, but his sons are abroad, one in Mexico, one in China...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot "views with alarm...
Gustave Hervé, editor-in-chief of the Victoire, who in 1917 was foremost in the clamor for Clemenceau, and who is now believed to speak for the Elysee, wrote thus of Premier Poincaée: "It is most regrettable that a man who is so upright, a patriot so sincere, a worker so prodigious, should fail France which counted so much on him. By whom can he be replaced? Is there none better among our politicians? Yes, there is old Clemenceau and his team. They made the Treaty of Versailles which was not perfect, which was not as good...
...taken up advertising on a scale heretofore unknown. It is not merely distributing pamphlet literature telling of accomplishments and prophecying future greatness. It is not introducing subways in order to produce new advertising space. It has conceived a broad scheme of national advertising, to be accomplished by the patriot ship--"Italia," which is to cruise the seas of South America, carrying specimens of Italian manufacture, art, and literature to all the foremost republics of the southern continent. It is a propaganda ship--a veritable floating "Italian Exposition"--to impress the Latin inhabitants of South America, and to stimulate commerce...