Word: matteotti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jumped two men, the man was seized, thrust into the car, driven off at high speed, while the three men struggled inside. Some time later an agitated Signora noticed that her husband had been long absent. Alarm was raised; search parties organized; all to no purpose. Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, multimillionaire Socialist, husband of the distressed Signora, was missing. It was presumed that he was the man seized on the bank of the Tiber...
...happened that Signor Matteotti had with him, when last seen, documents he intended to use in a speech against the Government. A hue and cry was raised by the people and by the Opposition press against the Minister and against the Government. It was hinted that Deputy Matteotti had been murdered at the instigation of certain members of Mussolini's Cabinet. Benito Mussolini, pale but confident, made the following statement to the Chamber...
...Signora Matteotti called upon the Premier: "Excellency," said she, "do you give me my husband's body so he may have an honorable burial...