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...political trial, the biggest political trial to unfold in Italy since after the war. I am not accused of having done anything, such as broken anybody's head, but only of having thought or said certain things. If I get up and say 'Viva il Duce!' I can go to jail for twelve years. If a Socialist does it, nothing happens...
...words seemed to convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...
Three months ago, MSI party headquarters in Rome's Palazzo del Drago sent new instructions to 94 local organizations reining in its swaggering street fighters. Members were to get haircuts regularly, shave daily, wear neckties, eliminate profanity and downplay nostalgia for the good old days of II Duce. No swastikas were to be smeared on synagogue walls or provocative marches made through Jewish neighborhoods...
...door told Armstrong he had enjoyed "our animated talk." Armstrong soon produced a short, foreboding book called Hitler's Reich-The First Phase, warning accurately of what was to come. Later, he visited Mussolini in Rome. Asked to assess his fellow dictator to the north, Il Duce "looked at me with big serious eyes and sighed a sigh that might have been for the woes of the world but probably was regret that he was being copied by an inferior artist...
They are not allowed to call themselves Fascists, to praise Mussolini in their propaganda, or to sing the old anthem, Giovinezza, at their rallies. But 26 years after Il Duce was killed and strung up by his heels in public disgrace, the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement (M.S.I.) has built a membership of 400,000 and is becoming a force to be reckoned with. As Italy plunges deeper and deeper into a turmoil of strikes and riots, many inspired by ultra-leftist forces, increasing numbers of people look to the party as a good place to cast their protest votes...