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Strapped to four chairs the condemned were set up with their backs to a firing squad which proceeded to aim at the bases of their spines. Present were General Guido Cristini, President of the Facist Supreme Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State, and his fellow judges. This was their third execution, the Death sentence having been revived in Italy for crimes against the State in 1927. With set, stern Facist faces they watched until 5:43 a. m. when the rifles cracked out shots in the back-Italy's idea of a supremely disgraceful Death. Throughout Jugoslavia...
Last month in Atlanta, Ga., birthplace of the (second) Ku Klux Klan and Order of the Supreme Kingdom, there came into being an "American Facist [sic] Association and Order of Black Shirts." Its organizers were Holt J. Gewinner and Joseph Wood, onetime Klan candidate for governor. In petitioning the Fulton County Superior Court for a charter (not yet granted) the association claimed its purposes were "white supremacy," "charity," "patriotism" and assistance to members in finding jobs. Dues: $1. The Black Shirts prepared to run Negroes out of jobs, replace them with unemployed "Facist" members. Atlanta stores advertised black shirts...
Editor Anderson's blast produced results in Atlanta. The Constitution broke its silence, reported that the Federal Grand Jury would soon inquire into the Black Shirts. Basis of the investigation: charges that "Facist" committees had called on Atlanta employers of Negroes, ordered them, under threats of violence, to discharge their black help and hire jobless Black Shirts, in violation of a Federal statute providing ten years in jail and a $5,000 fine for persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured...
...remained for Mussolini to cap the climax. In the Decalogue of the Young Facist there are incorporated ten commandments that almost reach the magnitude of a Napoleonic gesture. The purpose of these ten requirements is to train good Italians to be good Facists, and if these rules are obeyed, II Duce will have succeeded in resembling Napoleon to an even more gratifying degree. Anticipating some of the difficulties that might arise from the rather unusual sternness of the pronouncement, the Italian youth are not to object to being confined to prison, for the Dictator assures them that any such punishment...
...dispute allegedly threatened to disrupt, split and irrevocably sunder the entire party. No alarm was felt, however; Rome was amused, hilarious, even enthusiastic over the daily ebullitions of the four disputants. Then the Facist fiat put an end to their fulminations. The comedy was over. Rome smiled and turned expectantly to II Duce for the next thrill...