Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swiss police had never before in the polite League's history had to deal with hecklers in the press box. For ten minutes the Fascists kept up bedlam, until they went down before an entire platoon of Geneva's finest, who yanked them by their coat collars off to jail. Next day the Socialist canton of Geneva expelled them all-some Italian journalists of ten years' standing with families in Geneva. But they received wires of praise from Italy's new Press & Propaganda Secretary Odoardo Dino Alfieri for a Fascist escapade at which the London Times...
Benito Mussolini used them to scare Stanley Baldwin, who received disquieting news that in the Mediterranean Fascist Flea Boats were running circles around Britain's most potent dreadnoughts, obviously able to dash in for quick, close, suicidal work with torpedoes had Il Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered...
Meanwhile a young Swiss Fascist wag, made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreaths on Swiss Fascist was made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreath on Swiss monuments. He even fooled the Permanent Italian League of Nations Delegate, Signor Bova-Scoppa, who used to be stationed in Addis Ababa. Last week Delegate Bova-Scoppa responded courteously when accosted on the street...
Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...
...Mussolini recently strengthened his control over industrial Italy by (1 abolishing labor unions, 2 setting up a Fascist Council to determine wages and prices, 3 decreeing 100% taxation on all profits over 5%, 4 decreeing that Italian imports must not exceed 10% of exports, 5 nationalizing banks and large industries...