Word: fascistes
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...Fascist press was silent except for one which under the headline, ORLANDO CONFIRMS AND CONFESSES LIBERAL DEFEAT IN PALERMO, confined itself to printing without comment the ex-Premier's letter of resignation...
...that Italy's politicians were wasting the fruits of the victory. The men to whom he could appeal were the ex-service men and, with the rare sagacity born of a natural politician, he began to organize these into the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (later the Fascist Party) "for the vindication of the victory, the rights of ex-service men and the liberty of the world...
Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Aventine Opposition, took it into his head last week to take the waters at Montecatini, near Lucca in Tuscany. But it never occurred to him that that section of Tuscany was homogeneously Fascist. Not long after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed...
...following, Deputy Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascisti, told a cheering audience in Naples that he could not deplore the attack on Signor Amendola. "It is time," said he, "anti-Fascisti should know that this comedy cannot last longer." This "comedy" was attacking the Fascist Party...
...fifth lecture will deal with the historical background of Fascism and the rise of the Fascist movement, while the sixth lecture will be about the pres-ent National Government of Italy in action...