Word: fascistes
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Correspondents were amazed at the meekness of those two professional firebrands, Fascist Adolf Hitler and his backer Alfred Hugenberg. These two made no move to start trouble last week but contented themselves with harmless mutterings about what they would do when they got in power. Suddenly the news spread that Hugenberg owed $5,000,000 to the Danat bank which failed fortnight ago. Then was seen some of the shrewdness of the old man in the President's Palace and his keen-eyed disciple. By letting Danat fail, Brüning and Hindenburg had muffled Hugenberg. Munich authorities...
...best he could the young priest stowed them away, slipped with pounding heart out of the Vatican, penetrated Italy, rode demurely in a hot and rattling railway car for more than 24 hours, then faced grim but unsuspicious Fascist frontier guards who gave one scowling look at his Papal passport, let him go. After that it was easy for the young priest to carry his precious documents to their destination. Once in Paris, he turned them over to Catholic superiors who nodded approval when the young priest begged, "Please do not let the newspapers know my name...
...these circumstances, Italian Catholics who swear Fascist oaths and participate in pagan worship of the State are advised by the encyclical to do so with mental "reservations, such as 'safeguarding the laws of God and of the Church' or 'in accordance with the duties of a good Christian' with the firm proposal to declare also externally such a reservation if the need of it might arise...
...centuries of punishment that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...
...three years earnest Fascists scoured Sicily worming evidence from terrified farmers against the Mafia. In 1929, when the offices of Fascist Mori were jammed with evidence of more than 100 murders, the first of these great mass trials began (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Fascist prosecutors rushed from Rome to Sicily. In May 1929, 150 Mafisti were convicted at Termini Imerese. In January 1930, 170 more were sent to jail at Palermo. In July of the same year nine were given life sentences at Agrigento. Last week's trial nearly finishes...