Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bishop of Scranton had just warned his auditors against dangerous radicalism, adding: "Understand, however, a man may be a radical and do the right thing. Mussolini did a vast amount for the tranquility and prosperity of Italy." Then one of Cappellini's supporters moved that his leader be allowed to speak. Cheers burst from the delegates. Cappellini was given the floor and made his way to the platform amid an ovation...
...once the young Italian turned his guns upon the Bishop. He did not comment on the cleric's dubious classification of Mussolini as a radical. He spoke out more like a dictator than a new and untried leader. He laid down his platform: "My purpose is to see this convention conducted in a proper spirit. I want to tell you gentlemen we don't want any Mussolinis in this country. I want to tell you that Benito Mussolini has ruined organized labor in Italy...
...fight for electoral " reform" has taken a curious aspect: In the North the powerful Popular Party (Catholic) and in the South a royalist movement are the rallying points for the opposition to Mussolini's scheme...
...Mussolini wants elections to be held for the whole of Italy, each party to name a list of 350 men, who would become Deputies of the Party that secured the largest vote. The remaining seats (about 200) would be divided proportionately among the other parties...
...Mussolini's resourcefulness. He will defeat Don Sturzo's party by a mathematical trick...