Word: fascistes
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...should like to take exception to Mr. Cohen's statement in Wednesday's CRIMSON that "Mussolini is conducting in this country propaganda foreign to our ideals." Being an Italian-American and in favor of the Fascist movement in Italy I have become nauseated with the repeated gibes and attacks made against a friendly nation without palpable proofs of any kind. I am led to think that those who utter such flimsy assertions act either through malice or dark ignorance...
Personally I have never been approached by anyone who is disseminating this so-called Fascist propaganda, nor have those Italian-American acquaintances of mine who are violently anti-Fascist ever complained to me that the Black Shirts are attempting to overthrow or degrade the pure ideals cherished by Mr. Cohen and his American associates...
Though private property is supposed to be anathema at Moscow and sacred at Rome, the Fascist decree under which the seizures were made in Italy last week reads in part: "Property is not an end in itself. Those who own it have special duties with regard to the collectivity of the people, represented by the State. Wealth is something which belongs to all, and to possess it you must know how to administer...
...Russia, peasants in good Soviet standing work seized lands as "collective farms." In Italy "Fascist Syndicates" will sow and reap confiscated estates...
Early this month in Italy a royal decree announced that Milan's famed La Scala opera would henceforth be under government control, that a Fascist commissioner would dictate its programs, the selection of artists. Many there were in Italy and the U. S. who linked this news with the resignation last fall of Arturo Toscanini after nine years as La Scala director. He, it is said, foresaw the Fascist rule. He, it is known, can brook no interference with a musical enterprise under his direction...