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...year-old "Father of the U-Boats" is ordinarily content to recline at ease on one of the extreme Fascist benches in the Reichstag. There he is sometimes observed to nod. More often he strokes and fondles his forked beard, remembering, no doubt, how he was forced to resign as Grand Admiral by the Kaiser (1916) and obliged to take refuge in Switzerland after the War because of German popular resentment* against him as the instigator of Germany's eventually disastrous U-boat policy. Such memories, perhaps, have taught him to keep silent. But last week he rose...
...Before and during the War we frequently made the mistake of underestimating the importance of public sentiment as a world factor. If that was a mistake at the zenith of our power, it would have represented nothing less than a crime in our present situation." Fascist Deputy von Graefe bellowed: "Bah! These trick explanations! You are doing parlor tricks...
...bloodstained motor car was trundled last week into the courtyard of the tiny Court of Assizes at Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. In that car had been murdered Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, Deputy, a man marked by all Fascists as the foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 23, 1924). From the spark of tragedy ignited by his death a powder train of suspicion flamed toward Mussolini and was barely stifled without blowing up the Fascist party. The entire Aventine Opposition walked out of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and has not returned* as a protest against both the crime itself...
...salient note of Professor W. Y. Elliott's discussion of Fascism at the Liberal Club last night was one of doubt as to the permanence of the present Fascist regime. Although he did not think that Mussolini's government would produce any lasting effects, he admitted that Fascism was a very real force in the political situation of the present. Not only a force, but, controlled by the admittedly imperialistic aspirations of Mussolini, a direct menace...
Speaking of the effects the Fascist influence has had in this country, Professor Elliott said that it had resulted in splitting the Italians here into two distinct groups, the Fascisti and Anti-Fascisti. While the express purpose of Fascism in the United States is to keep down the Red element among the Italians, its control has become of doubtful value...