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...Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang the bells for patriotism, called Kaiser Wilhelm II "that mad dog." An expert on Italian radical movements, he later encouraged Editor Benito Mussolini, of Milan's Socialist journal Popolo d'ltalia, to plug hard for Italy's entry into the war on France's side. To Editor Cachin was assigned the delicate mission of seeing that French money found its way into Editor Mussolini's pants. But afterwards, in 1920, on a trip to Moscow, Marcel...
Benito Mussolini's paper, Il Popolo d'ltalia, with notable lack of logic, angrily blamed the deaths on France's contraband authorities. "Those four hours proved fatal. If the French had not stopped the Orazio, the ship could easily have reached Barcelona, even in flames, and all aboard would have been saved...
Still silent remained Il Duce's own paper Il Popolo d'ltalia (to which all Fascist Party members must subscribe), unwilling yet to attack Joseph Stalin or to slam the Moscow-Berlin Axis. There will be time enough for that when it becomes certain that Joseph Stalin is going to thwart Benito Mussolini's ambitions in the Balkans...
...Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive demand that Italy join the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. He went to the front in 1916 and was soon severely wounded...
...Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin reported last week that a battalion of the French infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Dupont, had deserted to Switzerland because the men were perturbed by the international situation. Beneath this story in very small type, La Gazzetta added...