Word: avanguardisti
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...disorders last month (when partisans occupied the local prefecture for a menacing 24 hours), some 200 men wearing civilian clothes bulging slightly at the hip pocket had kept guard in the streets near the Catholic daily newspaper Italia. They were members of north Italy's Catholic underground militia, Avanguardisti Cattolici-Catholic Vanguardists. Milanese called it simply...
...only the silhouette of A.C. was visible, but it was a striking silhouette. Its leaders claimed that it was purely defensive, would never act save in self-defense or when called upon by the government. But Avanguardisti "eyes" were in every important factory, including the Communist-thronged industrial area of Sesto San Giovanni. Boasted an A.C. member: "No hostile truck leaves Sesto without the Catholics in Milan being alerted...
Preliminary which will include two classes: from 8 to 18, from 18 to 21. Training in the first period will be conducted through the Fascist Balilla and Avanguardisti "to give boys a passion for military life through frequent contacts with the armed forces whose warlike traditions and glories will be re-evoked." Besides drilling, 20 hours of the high-school year will be devoted to military history (the Fascist version of Italy's part in the War): map reading, the organization and duties of the various branches of the service. No schoolboy may be promoted to a higher class...
...point of view, because his blackshirt youth organizations are machine-tailoring more soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
Last week 23,000 picked Avanguardisti, smart young Fascist zealots culled from 100 summer training camps all over Italy, had the honor of marching past Il Duce and the 100 generals. For the first time the boys were given real rifles. One hundred yards from the reviewing stand each unit clicked into Mussolini's latest invention, the new Fascist half-goosestep which is executed with the left arm and left leg swinging out stiff...