Word: fascisti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first election under the new electoral law took place on April 6. There was no doubt of the outcome. The Fascisti won. Two days before the election, Benito, who cast the first vote in Milan, issued a bulletin to his Fascisti...
...Ever since the Fascisti seized power in 1922, foreign journalists in Italy have been comforted by the knowledge that their despatches would be delayed by Mussolini's hidden censorship only when they said something that the black-shirted officials might resent. The only foreign journalists in Italy to be molested have been those whose opinions of Fascismo were not friendly-just as in Italy only anti-Fascist papers have been burned, only anti-Fascist editors have been beaten, only hostile plants have been wrecked...
Mussolini's Ambassadors spend much of their time outside the land of sunshine and black shirts in praising the modest leader of the Fascisti...
...cordial cooperation accomplished secretly. Filippo Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner appointed by Mussolini to succeed the Mayor of Rome, paid a call on Cardinal Pompili, Vicar of Rome, the officer whose predecessors had once ruled the city under the Papal States. His call was returned noncommittally (TiME, March 24, 1923). The Fascisti restored religious education in the public schools. In return for these many favors, the Vatican helped Mussolini to break the power of little Don Sturzo, and the Catholic Partita Popolare, leaving the Fascisti the only real political party in Italy...
...Italian Council of the Labor Federation decided to shun politics at the forthcoming elections. Its members are thus left free to choose between the Fascisti and anti-Fascisti candidates. The Council, however, took the opportunity to express its principles on labor and civil liberties...