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Father Giovanni Vanninetti, editor of a Sondrio journal, wrote some humorous comments upon the War-decorations of the local Fascist candidate. Belisario Cantagalli, a Fascist secretary, challenged him to a duello. General Ricciotti Garibaldi, last surviving son of the great patriot, was reported very ill, was not expected to recover. His wife and daughters remain by him day and night, but his sons are abroad, one in Mexico, one in China...
Premier Mussolini, in an address to the National Fascist Militia, whom he had previously described as "not belonging to our Party but to the nation", said that he relied upon them to maintain order and discipline within their ranks during the forthcoming electoral campaign...
...Fascisti are powerful, and as Nationalists they are popular-just how powerful and popular only the elections can prove. Their popularity is due to their having delivered Italy from Bolshevism and put her in a sounder financial, economic and political condition. Against this, however, is the fact that Fascist brutalities in killings, burnings, floggings have alienated a number of Italians. Popular Party. The so-called Popular Party is Catholic and is the most recent of all political parties in Italy. It came into existence in 1919, when Pope Benedict XV removed the ban on Catholic political activity...
Constitutionalists. The Constitutional Party is generally regarded as liberal, but is in effect conservative. Like all other parties, it has suffered from the Fascist encroachment upon its policies. Signori Giolitti and Nitti are expected to be the most prominent leaders, but whether they will split or unite the Party cannot be determined until after the Fascist Grand Council has met in Rome to give voice to the Fascist policy, following which the Constitutionalists will state their platform. Most of the people who have been shocked at the Fascisti brutalities have fallen back on the Constitutionalists...
Thus by this treaty Premier Mussolini has secured to Italy the "martyred city" which d'Annunzio immortalized for Italians, and there cannot be any doubt that the Fascist Leader has achieved his greatest diplomatic triumph. Not only has Italy gained Fiume, but a counter-balance to French influence in Central Europe and, by the treaty of friendship, security on her eastern border...