Word: popolo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cried Il Popolo d'ltalia, official organ of Premier Mussolini, scoring M. Vanderyelde, Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, for refusing to shake hands with Dictator Benito, at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26): "Vandervelde is a hooligan in diplomacy ... a Social Democrat who fouts the established canons of diplomatic courtesy, which are scrupulously observed by even the Russian Bolsheviki. . . . Fortunately Emile Vandervelde is an insignificant person. . . . [But] the Locarno episode will not be forgotten...
...usual to assume that Signor Mussolini's volte face from Socialism was a sudden thing; but this is erroneous. In the autumn of 1914, he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, in which he advocated participation in the War on the side of the Allies, whereas he had been against intervention. The Socialists expelled him from the Party, but Mussolini remained a Socialist at heart, his revolutionary spirit unchecked...
...Popolo d'ltalia, Mussolini's organ, was longer-winded...
...Guards on white chargers, marched past the Quirinal Palace, paying a tribute of cheers to its Sovereigns and receiving in return the King's salutes and the Queen's bows. Dense crowds lined the streets from the Piazza Colonna, down the Corso Umberto, through the Piazza del Popolo to the Quirinal square. The most touching scene of the procession was when 50 surviving Garibaldi veterans, wearing their red shirts and led by Ezio Garibaldi, grandson of the Patriot, marched past the grandson of Vittorio Emanuele II whom they had helped to make King of United Italy. Emotional Italians...
...Popolo d'ltalia again called upon the Fascisti to keep the peace and even rebuked them: "But we also must address a stern word to those who wish to continue the lawless days of Fascista punitive expeditions. They are led astray by their romantic souls, while the 'Legalists' are obviously tired of being Fascisti. "Criticisms made just for the pleasure of criticising are work for fools. Fascismo which does not create instead of talking is not Fascismo, just as we cannot consider as Fascisti some of the men whom recent political events have brought into the limelight...