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Some 15 months ago (TIME, June 23, 1924) occurred the famed Matteotti murder, a scandal that rocked Fascism to its foundations. As he walked one evening beside Tiber, Giacomo Matteotti, multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy, was set upon by fanatical blackshirts who jumped out of a closed automobile and seized him from behind. Bundling him into their machine, they kidnapped and brutally murdered him. For days a rigid Fascist censorship released only news that he had "disappeared." Then the details of the crime leaked out. Charges were preferred against prominent Fascists. II Benito himself did not escape the implication of ultimate...
While Premier Mussolini was winning votes in the Chamber of Deputies, to give him temporary power summarily to eject his enemies from government employment, the secessionist Deputies (Socialists who began a boycott of the Chamber of Deputies following the murder, last year, of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti) were discussing their future policy on the Aventine hill to the south...
...year ago, occurred the abominable assassination of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 25 et seq.), which shook the kingdom to its foundations and struck such a blow at the prestige of Benito Mussolini that he is only now recovering from...
...less than a septuagenarian. During the day, the Diplomats were received by the King, who listened and replied to their addresses of goodwill and congratulations. Representatives of the Aventine Opposition-Deputies who boycotted the Chamber as a protest against the Fascist régime following the murder of Matteotti (TIME, June 23 et seq.)-called at the Quirinal, presented their greetings. No untoward incidents were reported. The Fascisti did not march in a body, but mixed in with the other organizations. The day was an impressive display of loyalty to the Crown, personated by the head of the House...
...Aventine* Opposition-group of about 150 Deputies of the Opposition which has boycotted the Chamber of Deputies since the Matteotti murder (TIME, June 23 et seq.)-seized a chance during this quietus to steal some of Benito's thunder...