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Word: whiteshirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Temper. Italy's anti-Fascist groups wondered if Blackshirt Fascismo had merely given way to Whiteshirt Fascismo. Cried the underground: "Treason . . . betrayal. . . . We are going from one dictatorship to another. . . . The time has come for [the people] ... to demand ... a clear declaration of [the government's] foreign and internal policy." Giornale d'ltalia, no longer edited by Mussolini Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda (rumored a suicide), warned: "[Italy might have as much to fear] from her friends as from her enemies." Milan's Corriere della Sera, mutilated by the censor, voiced a widespread worry: "The limpid truths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: State of Revolution | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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