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...Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. The prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged in the breasts of these alleged murderers of Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, irreconcilable foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June...
...Matteotti murder (June 10, 1924), as everyone knows, seriously embarrassed the Fascist Party, resulted in the arrest of 25 Fascists, and gave rise to rumors which still brand Premier Mussolini with the suspicion of having instigated the assassination. One by one 20 of the more prominent arrested persons have been released by the public prosecutor or set free under the last general amnesty. Recently the wife of Matteotti withdrew from all participation in the prosecution which her attorneys characterized as "judicially and morally nil." Last week there began the trial of five men who are regarded widely as mere scapegoats...
Hero. Deputy Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, was greeted by a band and the wildest enthusiasm when he arrived at Chieti to take charge of the defense. Robed in a handsome gown stitched together by patriotic female admirers, he received homage on all sides for daring to defend the alleged perpetrators of a crime so malodorous. Anti-Fascist lawyers had refused to undertake the defense, professing horror. Fascist lawyers had refused, lest Fascismo be tarred with additional infamy. Above such Roberto Farinacci soared...
...declared: "Since the Fascist Party is completely extraneous to the Matteotti murder, I, although Secretary General of the party, do not hesitate to assume the defense of the accused in my private capacity of barrister...
...charge of murdering Matteotti.... I admit carrying out the kidnaping with the help of some friends.... In September, 1923, I went, to Paris to investigate the murder of two Fascisti there. ... I discovered at that time that French Socialists were plotting the murder (which subsequently took place) of our Fascist comrade Bonservizi. They were plotting with Matteotti...