Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Alberto de Stefani, Minister of Finance, called upon Premier Benito Mussolini, to whom he said, in effect: "Certain people in the Party have criticized me for balancing the State budget at the expense of municipal finance. In vain have I defended myself; and in order to silence these hostile voices, I offer you my resignation." With expressions of regret the Premier accepted the Finance Minister's resignation...
...once release him. The Premier, no doubt with a muffled sigh of relief, accepted the resignation; for it was known that Signor Nava, a Populist or member of the Catholic Party, was not entirely welcome or at ease in an otherwise all-Fascist Cabinet. Within a day, Premier Mussolini appointed Count Giuseppe Volpi Minister of Finance and Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo Minister of National Economy, thereby making his Cabinet all-Fascist. The only member of the Premier's original Cabinet, excluding himself, is Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, who, next to Mussolini, is the strongest...
Nava. Signor Cesare Nava was merely a political pawn. Mussolini needed him at one time for his pro-Vatican policy but, as it is now clearly recognized that that policy has been advanced as far as possible, Nava became an anomaly in the Cabinet and was virtually removed to make room for a Fascist...
...leader entitled "Signer Mussolini's Apology," The Times did some "rectifying" in its own, sweet way. It began by asking what right 3,000,000 Fascisti had to claim that they represented a politically organized nation of 40,000,000 people. "If, as Mussolini says," the newspaper continued, "the discontented are but a small group, why is it necessary to gag the press, forbid free speech, forbid public meetings and arm the executive with arbitrary and irresponsible powers? We believe Mussolini sincerely and earnestly desires the welfare of Italy. We are convinced this policy is not in the long...
...Rome, il duce Mussolini fumed...