Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Order must not be disturbed in any way. This I demand with the utmost severity . . . All Fascists will obey, as always.-MUSSOLINI...
Nobody can deny his passionate love for his country, his daily struggles on the behalf of Italy in the face of every kind of danger and opposition with an energy which is often prodigious. At home and abroad Mussolini is considered a kind of national emblem working with a kind of mystical exaltation, which may be criticized in its details, but whose loftiness of spirit and the nobility of whose ends cannot be denied...
...Armistice Day Speech, delivered by Premier Mussolini before details of the plot were allowed to leak out, was in part as follows: "Italy's victory over the Central Empires gave us our present sacred inviolable boundaries. Woe unto anyone who would attempt to violate them!....I believe we are confronted with a long period of peace . . . not with the possibility of peace for centuries. . . . The Italian people must not rest on their laurels . . . must be taught how sublime it is to sacrifice one's self for one's country...
Telegrams and congratulatory messages poured in upon Mussolini in such number that they were lugged to his office in bales and sacks. King Vittorio Emanuele, Queen Elena, the Queen Mother and Crown Prince Umberto were among the first to express heartfelt relief that Mussolini had been spared to defend Italy and the House of Savoy. In all the large cities of Italy imposing demonstrations of thanksgiving were participated in by thousands, who paraded through the streets singing and cheering...
...Mussolini has just accomplished another coup de force. Zaniboni was a Unified Socialist, but was excluded from the party on account of his too frequent visits to the King...