Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Benito Mussolini for the third time refused to permit Dr. Guglielmo Ferrero, famed anti-Fascist historian, to leave Italy, this time to attend the World Population Conference in Geneva. Il Duce's decision was made known by Dr. Ferrero in a letter sent to the seat of the League of Nations...
...Signor Mussolini's action against Dr. Ferrero follows his policy of keeping his enemies within sight and under control. Abroad he would have virtually no control over them and no jurisdiction whatever. Hence, amenable to Fascist law, he keeps them where, if they displease him, he can jail them without a boo from anybody-who matters...
Pomposity. With the pomposity of an early Roman Emperor, Premier Benito Mussolini last week published the full draft of proposed new Italian criminal laws, designed to give him jurisdiction the world over, empowering him to prosecute and punish Italians and foreigners alike...
Significance. Such a criminal code, if enforced, most probably is to be construed as an attempt to silence unfavorable criticism abroad of Fascist methods; for Signor Mussolini could well try foreigners in their absence...
...members of the fire-eating wing of Fascismo, (Emilio Settimelli and Mario Carli, editors of the Impero [Power], sometimes described as an official Fascist journal) and the two members of the weaker-kneed group, Curzio Suckert and Telesio Interlandi, (editors of the Tevere [Stable], a convenient backyard for Dictator Mussolini's mental gambits...