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...Blackshirts of all Italy!" Thus began a proclamation of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome, Oct. 28, 1922. In accordance with the Prime Minister's recent decision, th«re was no public holiday-all Italy worked, except a few athletes who gave a demonstration in Rome. The real celebration, staged with the usual vigorous splendor, marchings with flags, flamboyant rhetoric, was held two days later, on a Sunday...
Perhaps Poland may now look forward to new Fascist innovations, for. the two dictators are sure to discuss the relative merits of dictatorship, etc. It is recalled that Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary returned from Rome early in the year to promise the startled and unhappy Hungarians a few Fascist reforms, so enamored was he of Signor Mussolini's personality and government...
...island of Sicily, captured, jailed. For centuries the Mafia protected Sicilians while the island was under foreign rule. When Italy became unified in 1870, the Mafia (in reality a coalition of gangs) turned brigands and terrorized the island ruthlessly. Not until the advent of Signor Mussolini and his Fascist! has any government dared to put down their wholesale lawlessness, although many half-hearted attempts have been made...
...Legionaries who stayed ashore in Genoa commented up the reserve, the dignity, the almost disdain of Fascist Italy. How it contrasted with demonstrative France! But soon "buddies" were saluting camerati; soon they were imitating the Fascist salute (right arm forward, raised at 45°, palm open downward) and solemnly saluting one another with...
Wired II Duce to Signer Morigi: "I send you my good wishes. Through your sacrifice the Fascist of Ravenna will become ever stronger...