Word: fascisti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, assembled the Italian Parliament minus its Opposition. Some 150 Socialist Deputies, true to their promise made after the murder of Matteotti (TIME, June 23), boycotted the Legislature with the result that 250 Fascisti and a mere handful of Liberals and Communists disported themselves on the benches and tried to make the Chamber of Deputies look crowded...
...opening proceedings were entirely uncharacteristic of Italian Parliaments. Whatever the Fascisti said, only the Fascisti could applaud or boo. And, more strange, there was a total absence of that usually irresistible temptation for the Opposition spokesman to speak at the same time the Government spokesman. At least in this respect, the boycotted Parliament was superior to its predecessors...
...Fascist towered over him with menacing fists, shouting: "I don't hit because the mere sight of you makes me sick." A fight was avoided; and a few minutes later, the Communist concluded his speech and led his followers from the Chamber to the delighted taunts from the Fascisti of "encore." After four days of uninspired debating, the Chamber of Deputies approved the Government's foreign policy and returned a vote of confidence in Mussolini by 315 to 6 votes; 26 Deputies, led by ex-Premier Orlando, who was elected on a Fascist ticket, abstained from voting...
MUSSOLINI: "Justice is impartial and strikes the Fascisti as heavily as any other citizens...
...pointed to as the reason and the justification of his violent tactics. But each scare must of necessity be greater than the previous one, or it will fall flat. The supply of scares is limited, and so is the gullibility of the masses. By their exuberant methods the Fascisti have convinced the rest of the people as well as themselves that violence is the natural instead of the exceptional method of settling controversies, and Mussolini could not now cry them halt if he would...