Word: fascistes
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Once more Pope Pius XI's loyal Count Dalla Torre, editor of Osservatore Romano rushed into the breach last week and attacked the Fascist Party. Cause of the quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most...
Times have changed. When gruff, penetrating Herr Wolff barked, "You are the Fascist regime, we a democracy!", Il Duce bridled, made an answer of utmost significance : "I am a democrat [pause] that is, an authoritarian democrat."* As though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil...
...will tell you what conditions really are," said he to Herr Wolff. "There is an island in the Gulf of Naples where two or three hundred people are living, having been sentenced there for their political activities. They are not all opponents of the Fascist regime. Some of them are Fascists, and when I find them guilty of any offense I am more severe toward them than I am toward others. The political exiles live apart from the ordinary criminals. Each of them receives ten lire a day and when it is necessary their families also are supported. Each...
...Impious Fascist aviators zoomed low over the Vatican last week, performed the air maneuver known as "Jazzing the Crowd." Vexed indeed was His Holiness Pope Pius XI to be thus interrupted while addressing Italian working girls in famed St. Damasus courtyard...
...editor of the original Fascist paper Il Popolo d'ltalia in Milan, Signor Benito Mussolini was threatened constantly by the Socialist Chamber of Labor, kept a quantity of hand grenades about his office to cow "the enemy." An old employee, Margherita G. Sarfatti, writes in her authorized biography of Il Duce that "one day, the office boy, all unconscious of danger, was about to light the fire in the stove, just then full of bombs." She once reproved her editor gently thus: "Do you really think a bomb is quite a suitable thing to put a lighted cigaret...