Word: balilla
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...Fascist Directorate protests against the LIES . . . contained in the foreign comment obtained from Vatican sources, criticizing the Balilla [Fascist boys'] organization, which is the strength, pride and certainty of the Fascist régime...
...will send them to communion in a body on Sunday, in their Balilla uniforms or otherwise. For that I let the priests work. That's religion. The rest is politics at la politique?...
...badges worn by members of the Catholic College Men's Association have in some instances been "forcibly torn from their buttonholes" by Fascist bullies. Il Lavoro retorted: "Catholic parish priests pray against the Fascist regime! They prevent from entering their churches little boys in the uniforms of the balilla" (Fascist Boy Scouts). At the Vatican it was announced that "particulars of 35 recent acts of intimidation" of Catholics by Fascists had come to the Holy Father's ears, caused him sore grief. Thereupon Fascist youths gathered around the Catholic Students Association House, hurled stones, broke windows even...
Reports reached Paris last week that the little lads of the Fascist Balilla (Italy's militarized Boy Scouts) now chant this brisk, stirring air as they march along shouldering small bolt-action rifles of the latest Italian Army type. To cut off the head of Marianne is, of course, to decapitate France. The fact that France and Italy quarreled at the London Naval Conference (TIME, Jan. 27 et seq.), coupled with the hostile tone the Italian Press has taken since, made French papers play up under biggest scare heads last week certain routine naval developments at home...
...Named after an Italian boy, Balilla, who distinguished himself when Austrians besieged Genoa in 1800, by hurling a rock at the enemy...