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Some 27 months ago (TIME, Sept. 29, 1923) General Primo de Rivera, robust determined, overthrew the allegedly corrupt Government of Premier Alhucemas by "a bloodless Fascist revolution," and became de facto "The Mussolini of Spain" and de jure President of "The National Directorate,"* an office which King Alfonso hastily created...
Last week the Court of Public Prosecutions took the final step which liberated these men, all of whom are intimates of Premier Mussolini. Forth from 18 months of imprisonment came Giuseppe Marinelli, onetime Treasurer of the Fascist Party, and was at once appointed its General Inspector of Administration. He and his co-prisoners, Cesare Rossi and Filippo Filippelli, were lauded by the Fascist press as "heroes," and their release was touted as "a great victory for truth...
Since practically all Opposition papers in Italy have been suppressed, there were few pro-Matteotti articles to be blue-penciled by Fascist censors...
Well might the deputies howl. The majority of them, however, as loyal Fascists, howled for the bill, not against it. Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, bellowed: "I exult in the bill as a death blow to the liberal democratic system of government!" Another prominent Fascist cried: "It transfers sovereignty from the People, a mere mass of ignorant beings, to the Nation, juridically organized in the State...
Since the Chamber as now constituted is almost entirely pro-Fascist, "the bill was adopted by almost unanimous vote...