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Roared Deputy Farinacci, famed firebrand Secretary of the Fascist Party, as he rushed upon Maffi: "If you speak of our Duce like that, we will repay you like this!" (Striking him in the face...
...Carmack, cartoonist to the Christian Science Monitor, key-noted events in Italy last week with the caption "MUZZLE-INI" over the sketch of an Italian peasant, gagged and muzzled by a steel mask labeled "Fascism," while Il Duce, throned in the background, looked grimly...
Despatches from Italy last week assumed almost the stereotyped cast of official bulletins, as Fascist censors ruthlessly blue-penciled all reports considered unfavorable to Il Duce (Benito Mussolini) or to Fascismo itself...
...chinks of a Roman shutter, tiny sunbeams glinted on the telescopic sights of a high power rifle. Across the way was a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi, upon which Benito Mussolini would soon appear. Vast Fascist crowds swarmed in the street, eager to catch the words of their Duce's Armistice Day address. With a baleful flash of satisfaction, the man with the rifle trained its sights still more accurately, and waited...
...Benito (TIME, Aug. 17), became promptly evident. Edda, invited to go for a motor trip by friends at Parma, telegraphed her father for permission. When the answer was delayed she replied to entreaties that she "come along anyhow": "Non! I am a disciplined Fascist. Without permission from my Duce* I refuse to move!" Near Leghorn, squadristi (gunmen) riddled a railway coach which they thought contained Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party and "big personal friend" of Benito Mussolini. Signer Farinacci, having chanced to miss his train, escaped death. Foiled, the squadristi vowed that he had ordered them...