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When passed within the next three months (there being no opposition) this measure will entirely alter the democratic character of the Italian Constitution and Parliament, and will transform the Fascist Party's Grand Council into the superior directing chamber of the State...
Mordant, militant are the words of Signor Augusto Turati, right hand "boss politician" to Signer Benito Mussolini, and Secretary General of the Fascist party...
Last week, speaking to 600 officers of the Fascist militia, Secretary Turati snorted: "The whole world is against us. We are against the whole world because we are antidemocrats, anti-Liberals, anti-Socialists. Fascismo is a thorn in Europe's eye, a hard blow in her back, an army which obeys, fights, dies and does not argue...
Only once has a Fascist mob lynched an assailant of Signor Benito Mussolini. The single instance occurred at Bologna (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). There the Dictator sat implacable and silent, in his limousine, after a bullet had ripped through his sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, barely skirting the abdomen...
...forces of conciliation won? Secretary Turati decided that if they had, he would sour the wine of their victory. He published an edict prohibiting all imported (therefore, French) wines at Fascist dinners or militia messes. As everyone knows, most Italian wines are totally without merit...