Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...Mussolini took power in a revolution, but his inaugural was orderly and his ministry has been industrious. He has declared hostility to all extreme socialists and repudiated all Soviets. He has pledged himself to balance the budget and appears at his office regularly at 8 o'clock. In his rather defiant speech to the Chamber of Deputies he declared the Black Shirts to be a force "tending toward development, progress, and equilibrium...
...turn, and in her worst despair, from the chaos of industrial strife, class enmity and communistic threats she has evolved a system and a leader, or rather, a leader who has created a system. Now, on the surge of the conquering tide of that system Signor Mussolini has been swept into power and the world has been galvanized by his first official utterance. With complete confidence in his party and in himself he has chosen to honor the king, respect the Senate, but to challenge the Chamber...
...Signor Mussolini may well ask God for help in a most arduous task. He must prove his words the prediction of a new era of statesmanship, not the evanescent promises of a power-intoxicated demagogue. Meanwhile there is no question who is in control. The 300,000 Black Shirts, it is interesting to note, are not inside the walls of the city. More remarkable is the Premier's statement that the government will show its strength against anyone, even against the Fascisti, if they break the laws of the country." Of his party and himself Signor Mussolini appears to have...
Threats of mobilization on the part of the Fascisti have now forced the Facta cabinet to resign. A stronger power than the government has taken over the government, and what will happed next is a mystery. Mussolini is less radical for his time than was Garibaldi, and the great changes of 1860 are not to be expected. A new cabinet may be formed under Giolitti, or if the rumors of the extremists of the Right are confirmed a republic will be set up in place of the kingdom...
...Mussolini was a republican a year ago, but the personal popularity of the king and the interests of Italian Unity have led him to speak for the preservation of the kingdom. Victor Emmanuel himself made it a principle, as he once remarked, so to bring up him son that if the need came, he could be the first President of Italy...