Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps in the familiar echoing halls of the Palazzo Venezia he had summoned his cabinet and the tough, diehard party bosses, such men as Roberto Farinacci and Carlo Scorza, for a final tempestuous session. Then, perhaps, he had conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing...
...Time Has Come. Some Sicilians warned their visitors that Fascismo on the mainland was in much tighter control than it was on the island. If so, Fascismo in Italy was certainly worried. Fascist Editor Roberto Farinacci cried out against nincompoop generals and flabby dignitaries in the Mussolini hierarchy. The people were told that Germany could not spare planes or men for Italy from the Russian front. Mussolini extended the zone of military rule to the two southern provinces opposite Sicily...
...Routine" shakeups in Party organizations have occured so often in the past six months that the people can scarcely keep track of them. But they do know that Mussolini has called back into power his old stalwarts of the club-and-castor-oil era, notably such "perfect Fascists" as Roberto Farinacci, now Minister of State, and Carlo Scorza, Party Secretary...
Like the death six months ago of President Roberto M. Ortiz, General Justo's passing from the Argentine political scene had international importance. Ex-President Justo came back from retirement last year to lead the forces opposing President Castillo's Axis-oriented neutrality. He gave his pledge that on the day he was installed in office he would declare war on the Axis...
...authorities ordered 18 Italian-Americans excluded from the San Francisco military area as dangerous to security-the first such action against white citizens. The wonder was that it was not done earlier: everybody heard about the goings on in the North Beach Italian colony. Fascists there used to say RoBerTo as a greeting-Ro for Rome, Ber for Berlin, To for Tokyo. Italy sent teachers, books and medals for the Italian schools. Mussolini won a popularity contest hands down over Franklin Roosevelt...