Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French police, calmly industrious, continued to investigate. They discovered documents which appeared to brand Colonel Garibaldi as an agent provocateur employed by the Italian Secret Service. His role has been to pose as an anti-Fascist and thus keep his employers informed of what plots were going forward among the Italian and Spanish foes of Dictators Benito Mussolini and Primo de Rivera...
...French press saw, likewise, the hand of Dictator Mussolini in attacks by Fascists mobs, last week, upon the French consulates at Tripoli and Benghazi in Italian Tripolitania. Though the Italian Foreign Office "apologized," the impression lingered that Fascists are being roused to a fighting mood against France, represented as the fertile republican ground upon which plots are hatched against Fascism...
This amounts to a defy to the governments of the world, for it flatly infringes the rights of foreign nationals as they are understood in international law. An Iowa farmer who writes an "exaggerated report" about his Italian farm hand to his brother in Timbuktu might under this law be imprisoned for 15 years should he ever be caught in Italy...
Supplemental Decrees: 1) Further curtailment of the already drastic restrictions on Italian emigration passports, which now make it virtually impossible for others than Fascists to leave the country; 2) Dissolution of all parties opposed to Fascism, and suspension of all opposition newspapers; 3) Creation of a special Fascist political police, virtually a Tsarol "Cheka...
International Significance: The decree laying down penalties of from 5 to 15 years' imprisonment for spreading ''exaggerated reports" about Italian affairs contains the following remarkable clause: "Any citizen or foreigner who commits the before-mentioned crime abroad will be punished by this law in Italy whether or not already punished abroad...