Word: fascistes
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...once the Fascist Government and its bitterest opponents were in accord. All Italy joined in showering farewells and good wishes upon the twelve Italians who are to negotiate the funding of their country's 50 billion lire ($2,000,000,000,) War debt to the U. S., under the leadership of Count Giuseppe Volpi* di Misurata, Minister of Finance...
...authority in Near Eastern affairs, to negotiate the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high in Fascist councils. Such was the suave oval-faced Italian, with level brows and a scrubby Van Dyck beard, who set sail with his Countess to talk of Italian debts upon an Italian-discovered continent...
Significance. Premier Mussolini undoubtedly intends to throw his whole influence behind, this program. And he will have a united Fascist party at his back. It is considered that the "reforms" have a very good chance of being imposed upon Italy...
Shortly after the event Fascist-censored cables and telegrams declared that a hot-headed Freemason, Giovanni Benciolini had wantonly shot and killed Cavaliere Luperini, a Fascist leader, and had then been set upon by an infuriated Fascist mob, which not only beat him to death but wreaked awful vengeance upon all Freemasons who could be found...
Curiously enough, when uncensored letters were received concerning these dark doings, it was represented that the Fascist leader who had allegedly been murdered without cause, had actually begun the trouble by striking an old Freemason, Cavaliere Bandinelli, violently across the face, while trying to make him divulge the names and addresses of all the Freemasons in Florence. Benciolini, a friend of the old man, had then shot the Fascist, and the harsh reprisals which followed were alleged to have been committed by disciplined Fascist militiamen...