Word: turati
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning even highest officials of the Fascist Party and the Italian Government may read in the papers that Il Duce thinks they should "return to the ranks." Each man named then obediently writes in longhand some such letter as was penned little over a year ago by Augusto Turati, then Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (TIME...
Writers of such letters soon receive a note couched in stiffest, most formal Italian, such as Il Duce wrote to Humble Servant Turati...
...this moment, Fascisti of all Italy, salute with me the comrade, Augusto Turati, and confirm this, that he is well merited of the cause of Fascist revolution...
...Turati out? Why Giuriati in? Not five people in Italy knew for certain last week, possibly not four. Might loves mys tery. But this set of facts was clear...
...Fascist, devoted Augusto Turati is remarkably mild, even reasonable, conciliatory. He was made secretary general in 1926 to tone down the excesses of his predecessor, Roberto Farinacci, notorious leader of Fascist Selvaggi ("Savages") who blustered about Italy smashing doors, knocking out teeth, kicking pits of stomachs. Today, with the Fascist Party comparatively civilized, there is talk in Rome that Civilizer Turati is perhaps "too mild." His successor is not. Up and down Italy nervous people know that Giovanni Battista Giuriati has metaphorically bashed and smashed from Fiume to the Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary...