Word: uomo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, on the 24th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, Fascist banners fluttered from Roman public buildings, pamphlets glorifying Il Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...other challenge was published in Good Sense, organ of Guglielmo Giannini's L'Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...
Monarchists gained. Pudgy, bustling Guglielmo Giannini, who skyrocketed his weekly Uomo Qualunque (The Common Man) to an 800,000 circulation by jeering at politicians, finally went political. A day before his Uomo Qualunque anti-politico movement was to hold its first national convention, he joined the monarchist Partito Democratico Italiano...
...Salvemini's words: "L'Uomo Qualunque is against everything and everybody." By endlessly pointing out every mistake made by the parties of the left, and, at the same time, sheltering fascist officials who are threatened with dismissal, such a magazine is both an instigator of unrest and a result...
...During this turmoil, L'Uomo Qualunque, reverting to a well-known type of fascist propagandas, whips up universal discontent and makes use of psendo-democratic catch words against all Democratic movements. How great an effect it will have is yet to be seen...