Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, with ten theoretical cruisers, President Coolidge sought to ease the hunger of the Navy and avoid an argument with Congress. There was dissent from this plan, even in Republican ranks. Representative Britten of Illinois, ranking Republican of the Naval Affairs Committee, who was not present at the making of the Coolidge-Butler compromise, said: "If the bill does not appropriate for those three cruisers already authorized, the authorization for the ten additional ones would appear to the world as a big bluff...
...days later, Mr. Heflin again stood up in the Senate. He backed up his previous charges with more charges, quoted an old testimony of an Alabama bootlegger: " 'You know Secretary Mellon loaned the Republican National Committee $5,000,000 in 1920. Only $3,000,000 has been repaid. There is a deficit of $2,000,000. Jess Smith was charged with getting that money. The plan was to have the liquor men and the breweries contribute to this fund...
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...
...return to facts,the Republican wing of Fascismo is strongly entrenched at Bologna, Ferrara and other Emilian cities. General Balbo, at present all but shelved as Under Secretary of Aviation, was once the Commander-in-Chief of the Fascist militia, and built up in that capacity a strong Republican following at Bologna. Reputedly he was shelved when he envisioned himself as the eventual successor of II Duce. Forces allied with him may have been active last week in the World's "mysterious" plot...