Word: fascistes
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...these gentlemen and many another were stigmatized by the Fascist newspaper, Impero, last week: "Nothing is bad enough for them but the ignoble death of the stiletto. We hope that the blessed hands of a few holy mad men will exterminate these traitors with cold steel...
Last week a quite insignificant Roman shopgirl, Signorina Giovanna Fabbro, attempted suicide by jumping off the great Ponte Cavour into the Tiber, was restrained by Fascist police, lectured by a Fascist magistrate...
Next evening she ascended the Pincian Hill, leaped off the 40-foot embankment of the sometime Borghese Gardens, landed in a net spread by Fascist police "to discourage the frequent occurrence of suicides at this place," was haled before another Fascist magistrate, clapped into jail "until morning...
...tribute to Mussolini there is no end. Il Re Vittorio Emanuele often sends him chamois shot upon the royal estates in Savoy. One humble Fascist is known to have done a painting for him in "pure salad oil." Last week there appeared a portrait of Il Benito done in 352 pages in jet-black printers' ink. Mussolini prefaced it with the remark, "I detest those who take me as the subject of their writings...
...Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri has been, since the beginning of the present pontificate, Papal Secretary of State, the official closest to the Holy Father. Recently it has seemed to some eager-eyed Fascists that the Cardinal's zeal for Fascismo has been insufficiently hot. At him went the Mussolini press unmuzzled. Fascist Secretary Farinacci charged him with having "displayed a vulgar demagogy." The Pope took notice, sent to the Cardinal Secretary a medal and with it a letter of supreme approbation...