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Professor Gaetano Salvemini, a distinguished historian, formerly a contributor to Mussolini's newspaper, but now one of the leading opponents of the Fascist dictatorship, is to give a series of three lectures in History 2b on Italy from 1871 to 1914 during the last week of this month...
Keenest interest focused on the First Category, since its 16 members will constitute a sort of extraordinary upper house.* One name eclipsed the other 15 in significance?Roberto Farinacci. His role has been the most sinister in Fascist Italy, and the most obscure...
Originally swart, nervous, cynical Roberto Farinacci was famed as the Castor Oil Man of Fascismo. Politicians who rashly opposed Il Duce were ambushed and forced to swallow a pint, a quart, even a sickening gallon of what Farinacci called his "golden nectar of nausea." As Secretary General of the Fascist Party he wielded Ku-Klux powers of life and death. His last notorious, outrageous exploit was to warp the very fibre of Italian Justice and get off virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since...
...parliamentary elections will be held March 23, 1929. The voter will receive a ballot containing the names, and only the names, of candidates approved by the Dictator in Council. If 51% of the electorate vote "yes," the entire slate will be declared elected, and Italy will have a 100% Fascist Chamber. Jokers in the law will almost certainly prevent a 51% vote of "no"; but in that remote contingency new elections would be held, and so ad infinitum until Fascismo triumphs. There are no local constituencies under this mock electoral procedure. In U. S. terms this would mean that...
...week, reputedly to represent Tsar Boris of Bulgaria in the matter of Princess Giovanna of Italy. This royal match has been rumored for so many years that incredulity must again be to the fore. All the same M. Muchanoff allowed himself to be most significantly quoted by the militant Fascist daily Il Tevere. At the very least his words served notice to Italians that a Roman Catholic princess need not switch to the Orthodox faith in order to become Bulgaria's petite Tsarina...