Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signor Mussolini has decreed a bachelor tax (See "Alalas"), assumedly with the deliberate purpose of increasing the pressure of already teeming Italians upon their frontiers. Does this mean that he envisions a war of conquest for new territory? Last week U. S. newsgatherers asked him this question as tactfully as they could. Instead of returning them a glare for their pains, II Duce, ruddy with health and vigor, seemingly in the best of humors, sketched his professed idea of how Italy is to expand without fighting. Said...
...Premier Mussolini has nipped a new conspiracy-this time a plot by Fascists to depose the King, murder General Pietro Badoglio, Chief of Staff and proclaim Mussolini Emperor. This fact, which comes exclusively to the correspondent of the World, is being kept a secret and, even to those who know of it {sic} its details are a deep mystery...
...Mussolini is furious, because he realizes the success of such a plot would ruin Italy's credit abroad...
Significance. This rumor sharply recalled a rift in the Fascist lute not heard of late amid the banging of the brass. The rift, a sizable cleavage, gaps between Republican and Royalist Fascists. Which, at heart, is Mussolini...
Fascismo was predominantly Republican until the march on Rome in 1922 when a compromise was engineered to bring the Royalists into camp. Mussolini, once a Republican, has scarcely shown himself a Royalist, however much he has become an Imperialist. He may logically desire a reversion to the awful Roman Republic of ancient and glorious days. In the unfolding of such a drama his first role would be Julius Caesar and his last that of the Emperor Augustus. The dream is spacious, redolent with grandeur...