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[-] Angel@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

Upside down Benito will never get old

[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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In January 1923, the young journalist Ernest Hemingway covered the Lausanne Conference for the Toronto Daily Star. His first encounter with Mussolini left him distinctly unimpressed. Ushered into a room along with other journalists, Hemingway found the Premier so deeply absorbed in a book that he did not bother to look up. Curious, Hemingway “tiptoed over behind him to see what the book was he was reading with such avid interest. It was a French–English dictionary—held upside down.”¹

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Where do you find this stuff? Your posts are always a treasure.

[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Doing a search on Google Books regarding Mussolini and the United States, I came across a good work titled The United States and Fascist Italy: The Rise of American Finance in Europe, which in turn lead me to Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, and I found copies thereof on Library Genesis.