Word: fascisti
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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There will be an open meeting of the Harvard Italian Club this evening at 7 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. Mr. J. Lazzaro will give a brief talk in Italian on the question of the Fascisti and open discussion in English will follow...
...power-intoxicated demagogue. Meanwhile there is no question who is in control. The 300,000 Black Shirts, it is interesting to note, are not inside the walls of the city. More remarkable is the Premier's statement that the government will show its strength against anyone, even against the Fascisti, if they break the laws of the country." Of his party and himself Signor Mussolini appears to have no doubt which is the stronger...
...name Fascisti, from the Latin fasces,--a bundle of sticks,--suggests the law and order of the Roman lictors. In the Bolshevik crisis and in the Italian Railroad Strike last year, the organization showed itself well disciplined and better able to keep order than the government...
Threats of mobilization on the part of the Fascisti have now forced the Facta cabinet to resign. A stronger power than the government has taken over the government, and what will happed next is a mystery. Mussolini is less radical for his time than was Garibaldi, and the great changes of 1860 are not to be expected. A new cabinet may be formed under Giolitti, or if the rumors of the extremists of the Right are confirmed a republic will be set up in place of the kingdom...
...union of the republican and monarchist ideals is not as incompatible as it appears on the surface. The change in the form of government would probably have less effect on the people than a sudden change from a weak to a strong cabinet. If the Fascisti set up a new central power based on democratic traditions it will be a move not so much to overthrow the present government, as an attempt from a new angle to build up a strong, stable, unified Italy...