Word: maffi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signer Maffi, leader of the minute Communist Opposition in the Italian Chamber, flayed the Locarno Pacts when they were presented for ratification last week: "To the false democracy of bourgeois governments which met at Locarno, we Communists oppose the desire for peace of Soviet Russia, which is the only country in the world willing and ready to discuss the question of disarmament. . . . I laugh with those who laugh at Locarno!" While Signor Maffii "laughed," the Chamber ratified the Pacts by a solid Fascist vote, with the Aventine Opposition absent (TIME, Jan. 25) and only two Communists daring to vote contra...
...many years the inflammatory deputies of Latin electorates have indulged at pleasure in conduct as tempestuously indecorous as the antics of a bad boy of six just deprived of a new toy. Only a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30) Fascist deputies, shrieking like wild Indians, dragged a Communist, Signor Maffi, from the Chamber by the hair of his beard. To that arch-stickler for authority, Premier Benito Mussolini, such doings have long seemed intolerable. Last week the cables carried news of a "reform" so ingenious that its high-handedness was passed over in a gale of appreciative laughter...
...Violent Incident occurred when bushy-bearded Communist Deputy Maffi shrieked that the demonstrations in Mussolini's honor did not reflect the feelings of the laboring classes...
Roared Deputy Farinacci, famed firebrand Secretary of the Fascist Party, as he rushed upon Maffi: "If you speak of our Duce like that, we will repay you like this!" (Striking him in the face...
Other Fascist deputies then closed in, and according to despatches "dragged Maffi to the door, by the beard . . . flung him out . . . threw out three other Communists . . . hissed, spat and uttered catcalls...