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...street, and seemed to take an interest in a powerful motor car loaded with extra gasoline tins, which mysteriously appeared in an alley behind the hotel. When the police were informed of these doings, they responded with grim enigmatic smiles. Later they declared that the details of the plot had been known to Signer Mussolini for weeks; that Tito Zaniboni and General Capello had long been carefully shadowed...
...National Demonstration of feeling followed the announcement of the detection of the plot. Premier Mussolini appeared on the "fatal" balcony before a crowd of at least 100,000 Fascists, packed so tightly that it was impossible to lift hands to clap. He cried: "You are here in such numbers that it is clear that, if I had fallen under the assassin's blow, not a tyrant would have died but a humble servant of the nation who daily gives his whole self to the cause of his country...
Amid loud cheers he announced that "stern measures" would be taken against those responsible for the plot, and against the Opposition. Then he asked the Fascists to promise that they would not take reprisals into their own hands. Roared the crowd: "No! Revenge! Justice! We shall bring you Zaniboni's head...
...Italian Press scored and stigmatized the plot almost without regard to party lines. Said II Tribuno, usually markedly antiFascist: The attempt rouses not only among the Fascisti but among all Italians the greatest indignation. Whatever party one may belong to, whatever reasons one may have to oppose the present Government, one must admit Mussolini is something more than a political symbol...
...Armistice Day Speech, delivered by Premier Mussolini before details of the plot were allowed to leak out, was in part as follows: "Italy's victory over the Central Empires gave us our present sacred inviolable boundaries. Woe unto anyone who would attempt to violate them!....I believe we are confronted with a long period of peace . . . not with the possibility of peace for centuries. . . . The Italian people must not rest on their laurels . . . must be taught how sublime it is to sacrifice one's self for one's country...