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...shakeups in Party organizations have occured so often in the past six months that the people can scarcely keep track of them. But they do know that Mussolini has called back into power his old stalwarts of the club-and-castor-oil era, notably such "perfect Fascists" as Roberto Farinacci, now Minister of State, and Carlo Scorza, Party Secretary...
...Farinacci, who lost a hand in the Ethiopian campaign (reportedly while using dynamite to catch fish), has what passes for the voice of the Fascist conscience. His newspaper, Il Regime Fascista, has railed against the abuses of bureaucracy, against defeatists, inflation and black-market dealings. Scorza, tall, tough provincial Party boss who once cheated Credito Toscano out of $6,000,000, is one of the Party's most ruthless administrators, has run an almost continuous series of purges of apparently thousands of "cancroid creatures who have crept into the Mussolini structure...
Rome: Signor Farinacci, when made Prime Minister today, said: "There is no need to arrest the Fascist leaders. The Party has been dissolved...
...profiteering contractors avoid Government taxes by giving weekend trinkets to pinchable blondes. Old families were being ruined by gambling debts. Married couples rowed over trifles. The black market's tentacles reached into the top of the Fascist hierarchy, despite fulminations against racketeers and "slackers" by Publisher Roberto Farinacci. Thousands of Romans, terrified by accounts of R.A.F. bombings in Naples, took their bambini into Vatican City, where they crowded together ten to 15 in a room...
Under Mussolini, the people of Italy are also going forward into the 20th year of Fascism without several things-without warm clothes, without an adequate supply of food. Saved from Bolshevism, Italy has handed her whole economic life over to hard-headed Nazi experts. Speaking in Trieste, Roberto Farinacci, Mussolini mouthpiece, hopefully told a crowd of 40,000 that Germany "will not betray" Italy after...