Word: fascismo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascismo. From a frowzy palazzo in Rapallo, Italy, he began sending out ranting political letters dated by the Fascist calendar. Friends found him extolling the "order" Mussolini had brought, prophesying wonders for Fascism, and grunting over the mysteries of politics and Social Credit...
...gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...
...While Fascismo still paid dividends, Count Galeazzo Ciano supped as well as any. Wedded to Mussolini's daughter, the waspish, predatory Edda, and openly called the heir apparent, he swooped through his duties as Foreign Minister with minimum effort and maximum profit...
...front lay 150 miles to the north, and Bari on the Adriatic felt at peace. It gossiped, haggled, argued. The rich profiteered, the poor scrounged miserably for black-market food. The young strolled down the streets singing, as they had done for centuries before Fascismo's advent...
...Falange (Phalanx-Spain's official Fascist party, modeled on Fascismo and National Socialism). Its violently pro-German extremists would be the country's Fifth Column if the Nazis pushed in. Franco himself is the Party's titular head...