Word: balilla
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...Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
...also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Meanwhile Mussolini had dashed off toward the great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this pause the Venetian crowd burst into huzzahs and swept police aside in a scramble toward the Leader. Four tall gondoliers...
...helmets, Siam sent scouts in black hats displaying a tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were 800 members of the Mussolini Balilla (substitute for Italy's suppressed Boy Scouts) and 60 Hitler Youth Boys. When Nazis suppressed the German Boy Scouts last June, B.P. exclaimed: "I am very glad! The German Boy Scouts were not attached to us. They were military. We are unmilitary and unpolitical-just Boy Scouts and nothing more!" Last week...
...would be a compromise along these lines: 1) The Government would permit the reopening of the 15,000 Catholic Action clubs* if the Vatican would guarantee that the organizations would not meddle in politics. Non-religious activities of the Catholic Action youth clubs would be handled through the Balilla, young Fascist organization. 2) The Church would allow Balilla units to be established in Church schools, if the State allows Catholic chaplains to conduct religious instruction within the Balilla. 2) The Government would pay for damages to Church property incurred during recent demonstrations...
...this counterblast was not moral victory enough for Il Duce. Simultaneously the council of directors decided to wipe out the effects of the Pope's message by 1) establishing a separate Party bureau for Balilla propaganda, granting it $50,000 from the Party coffers forthwith; 2) mobilizing the entire party (873,000 adults and 642,000 youths) on the Piave battlefields as a demonstration that Fascism is a military force not to be underestimated...