Word: fascistes
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...laurel wreath and a bouquet of roses were placed by a Fascist usher on the desk of Signor Mussolini as the Italian Chamber assembled last week in extraordinary session. The galleries and boxes twittered and sparkled with the elect of Rome, Fascist patricians who had come to cheer Il Duce as he put through the Chamber his Defense Decrees (TIME, Nov. 15) punishing with death attempts upon his life, and virtually abrogating civil liberty in Italy...
...TIME, Jan. 25). Is there not some faction of such insignificance that its opposition is tolerated for decorative effect? There is. Giovanni Giolitti, five times Premier, and his twelve "independents" who boast that their votes are cast according to the merits of every question, are tolerated by the 384 Fascists who virtually make up the Chamber. Last week, as the bill presented was of vital import Communist Deputy Costantino Lazzari tried to fight his way into the Chamber armed with an umbrella which he wielded vigorously. Strong Fascist arms expelled...
...Tsarol Decrees." Premier Mussolini, apparently reacting to the seemingly boundless devotion of his followers, called his Cabinet together and issued a series of decrees which the official Fascist press hastened to deplore as "too mild." Actually this "emergency legislation," announced to continue operative for five years, will render* the Premier very nearly as absolute as was poor Nicholas II, last, demented, murdered Tsar of all the Russias...
Decrees Summarized: 1) The Premier will appoint from the Fascist militia the personnel of courts martial which will hereafter deal according to wartime military law with all who are charged with "political crimes"; 2) Political crimes are elaborately defined, embracing at one extreme, attempts upon the life of the Premier, and at the other "the spreading of exaggerated reports"; 3) Of other "new crimes" perhaps the most notable consists in belonging to an anti-Fascist organization of whatever sort, which will be punishable by imprisonment at the discretion of the court martial; 4) The death penalty (heretofore abrogated) will...
Supplemental Decrees: 1) Further curtailment of the already drastic restrictions on Italian emigration passports, which now make it virtually impossible for others than Fascists to leave the country; 2) Dissolution of all parties opposed to Fascism, and suspension of all opposition newspapers; 3) Creation of a special Fascist political police, virtually a Tsarol "Cheka...