Word: matteoti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fernando di Rosa originally of Milan, Italy. An avowed antiFascist, di Rosa escaped from Italy over a year ago, crossing the French frontier on skis at night. In Paris he studied law at the Sorbonne, only leaving his little room in the Latin Quarter, to attend meetings of the Matteoti Club, a minor anti-Fascist secret society. It was at a meeting of this club that di Rosa won the honor of being delegated to shoot Prince Umberto...
Federzoni's potency was greatest shortly after Fascist bludgeon men had done to death the Socialist Deputy and millionaire Giacomo Matteoti-a deed which nearly unseated Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, himself suspected of ordering the crime (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.). With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator...
...Frankenstein of Fascismo which Premier Mussolini raised in Italy put him into power, but it now threatens to destroy him because he cannot control it. Beginning last July with the assassination of Matteoti, the Socialist deputy, there has been a sucqession of disturbances which culminated in the Italian Armistice Day riot. The grandson of the great Garibaldi has even challenged Mussolini to a duel but has not been answered...
...week in Italy was somewhat obscured by a strict news censorship, but there was every reason to believe that the murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteoti (allegedly by disciples of Premier Benito Mussolini ?TIME, June 23) had aroused the Italian people to a dangerous pitch and shaken the very foundation of Fascismo...
...efforts to find the body of the murdered Socialist allegedly failed. None of the prisoners gave any information on the point, but ex-Editor Filippelli of the Corriere Italiano admitted that he had given instructions for the kidnapping of Deputy Matteoti. One Amerigo Dumini, who kept his peace, was rumored to have carried out the murder...