... "I should imagine that he would not hesitate to cut off a man's head instantly if he failed to deliver what was expected of him", not an obvious feature of a man of character. Chernow makes clear that Morgan intelligence kept Lamont well informed of events within Italy and that he was inwardly ... , however Lamont continued to aid Mussolini. Even after the invasion of Ethiopia, when 500,000 Ethiopians were killed, Lamont wrote to defend Mussolini's actions, an act Chernow says "again reveals his (Lamont's) willingness to renounce principle for convenience". Although lending was based on ...

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... that Bicycle Thieves is "one of the first examples of pure cinema. No more actors, no more story, no more sets. The perfect aesthetic illusion of reality." The film portrays an odyssey through Rome by Antonio Ricci: thanks to Zavattini's theory of "pedinamento" - the following of someone - the audience is conscious of what the character in the film is doing at ... parties: popular front and Christian Democracy. Accordingly Bicycle Thieves is not only a realistic film that shows Italian post-war circumstances through Antonio's story, but it is also a film characterised by an acute psycho...

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... to the Italian people as demonstration of what could happen in Italy in the event of a communist victory at the polls. In an ironic twist of fate, this situation happened similarly with the di Gasperi administration and their dismissal of leftist opposition from the cabinet as mentioned ... "Sample letters- in newspapers, soon expanded to "mass-produced, pre-written, postage-paid form letters, cablegrams,"" educational circulars-, and posters, needing only an address and signature. And-- from a group calling themselves the Committee to Aid Democracy in Italy "half a million picture postc...

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