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...execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting Balilla-like uniforms, were marching in the wake of Salazar's blackshirt-type Legido (Legion), which gave the stiff-arm salute and chanted: "Who leads? SALAZAR...
...Benito Mussolini it had been a Latin pageant: the refurbishing of old Roman monuments and the building of new ones; marshland drained and colonies settled; a corporative state and the Balilla; adventure in Corfu, Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece and Egypt; the dream of Mare Nostrum and the grandest of Mediterranean empires...
...good a thing for totalitarianism to miss. Instead of the Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared." Italy's Balilla leaders preached: "Believe, Obey, Fight"; instead of democracy, "Mussolini is always right." Naziism began its youth organizations with a will, started pumping them full of fine Nazi phrases: "There is no greater honor than death for the Führer," "Command and we follow...
...Valenti showed the investigators photographs to confirm his story. But that story was confirmed by records of the Italian Government itself. The Government boasts that today 80,000 children in foreign countries are enrolled in the Balilla. Last year it recruited 18,500 foreign children, of whom some 5,000 were from the U. S. (mainly New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh and San Francisco), for the summer trip to Italy. Of its $6,500,000 annual budget for propaganda abroad, Italy spends nearly half to support, wholly or partly, some 800 schools, most of which...
Head recruiter for the Balilla in the U. S., charged Mr. Valenti, is one Professor Mario Giani, U. S. director of the Dante Alighieri Society, Government-supported Italian cultural and propaganda agency. Mr. Giani, whose office is in the headquarters of the Italian consulate in Manhattan, has as assistant recruiters, according to Mr. Valenti, Italian consuls, teachers in some U. S. colleges and public schools, pro-Fascist Catholic priests...