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Mussolini-"Hi, Hi, you're a scream Adolf. . . . Then I'll ask him for Tunisia, Corsica and Savoy...
...elegant, bemonocled French Ambassador feigned not to understand what was meant in the Chamber when all the Deputies without exception jumped to their feet and, encouraged by two eminent Fascist scream-leaders, screamed in frenzied Italian unison : "Tunisia! Tunisia...
...scream-leaders were His Excellency Grand Councilor Achille Starace ("The Panther Man"), Secretary General of the Fascist Party since 1932, and His Excellency Roberto Farinacci ("Italian Jew Baiter No. 1"), who that very day had been promoted to Councilor of State.* The screams of all Italian Deputies meant of course that Italy was asking France to give her Tunisia as the Reich was given the Sudetenland, without a fight...
This speech did not ask France to give Italy anything. It just happened to get interrupted by the whole Chamber, led by the two well-chosen scream-leaders. When screaming and speech were finished, the French Ambassador put on his top hat, adjusted his elegant monocle, and, smiling, drove away...
...Squilla (The Scream) was an Italian Socialist newspaper directed by Roberto Farinacci before the War, but after he gave up his original profession as a railway station "baggage-smasher" and stationmaster. After the War, he and a certain Mussolini were known as two of the several "Fathers of Fascism." Of the five Secretaries-General which the Party has had (1923-38), Farinacci was the second (1924-26). He was kicked out after getting mixed up in the Cremona bank scandals, resumed editorship in Cremona of his newspaper Il Regime Fascista (The Fascist Regime...