Word: avanguardisti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disorders last month (when partisans occupied the local prefecture for a menacing 24 hours), some 200 men wearing civilian clothes bulging slightly at the hip pocket had kept guard in the streets near the Catholic daily newspaper Italia. They were members of north Italy's Catholic underground militia, Avanguardisti Cattolici-Catholic Vanguardists. Milanese called it simply...
...only the silhouette of A.C. was visible, but it was a striking silhouette. Its leaders claimed that it was purely defensive, would never act save in self-defense or when called upon by the government. But Avanguardisti "eyes" were in every important factory, including the Communist-thronged industrial area of Sesto San Giovanni. Boasted an A.C. member: "No hostile truck leaves Sesto without the Catholics in Milan being alerted...