INTERNATIONAL: Ides of March
Most fascinating game for foreign correspondents to play these days is to figure out when, how and where the next big world crisis is going…
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Most fascinating game for foreign correspondents to play these days is to figure out when, how and where the next big world crisis is going…
The party of likely new prime minister Giorgia Meloni counts among its members the daughter of Benito Mussolini.
<p>The posthumous release of Nancy Dougherty's biography of the Nazi secret police chief emphasizes his bureaucratic cunning. Does it minimize his ideological commitment to Nazism, or the crimes he carried out? </p>
Do any of you remember the time when everything took place on terraces and outdoor cafés? Before everyone retreated into laptops and mobile telephones and Twitter? When possibilities flickered through the streets and the potential of new encounters was everywhere? Well, that’s all gone now, thanks to some pretty ugly-looking fellows with names like Dorsey and Zuckerberg, but we’re the ones who adopted their useless inventions and live by them as if they were the Sermon on the Mount. The social consequences have been devastating—the young make noises instead of articulating speech—and ...
After Mussolini Who? Says this writer: "II Duce is tottering. Italy is ripe for revolt, awaits only a leader — and an allied invasion" March 15 1943 GEORGE W. HERALD After Mussolini Who? Says this writer: "II Duce is tottering. Italy is ripe for revolt, awaits only a leader — and an allied invasion" GEORGE W. HERALD This article was written befare Mussolini’s recent spectacular purge of his cabinet, and suggests why there occurred a shakeup so drastic that Count Ciano ceased to be foreign minister and became Ambassador to the Vatican; that Prince...