the battle for the Llctorate Loan; the battle for grain; 1he battle for .,industries; the battle for the school; etc.; all ending in economic disasters, while the nation goes to pieces, still with the usual illusion that in the light of the centul'y, amazed by the wonders of aviation, of speed records, of the wireless tran£:misslon of electrical energy, of television, of synthetic chemistry, etc., the problems of society and government, which every day more and more assume the character of pure rational administration, can be indefinitely c\.eforred, if not resolved, by ferocious police measures! No, Sir, the people of Italy did not rleserve the shame of an adventurEr of such dimensions; nor did the peace of Europe deserve the nightmare of his syphilitic megalomania! The imperial glories of the regime are used, dishonoring the international obligations that have- been assumed, to oppress and harass with equal infamy of methods the most highly civilised minorities of other stock. He is leader and prisoner of a band of men who drain the blood of every resource of the nation, who make strife in the Fascist sections, in the search for the most wretched bone to gnaw; social riff-raf[, real scum from the galleys, convidted for common crimes, ot'Len occupy i11 this Fascist era positions of distinction. But his responsibility is immense, and in direct proportion to the systematic incitement to, and absolution of, crime, by which to reach and kenp in power, on the part of the worst element in the nation, which now dominates and rends it. His greatest exponents _and representatives in Italy and abroad are not nominated and chosen for their capacity, but for the greater number of crimes committed against the workers. The monarchy is finished. The dying speech of the monarchical institution has already been made in Italy through the mouth of its own representative. "If the party in Bibliotee,aG no B1a..,co 6 powcr"-such was the rather undistinguished plea of King Victor, supposed to be reigning by the Grace of God and the Will of the Nation, in the presencll of four previous Prime Min isters-"<lesires me to go, I am ready." The Fascist militia itself, consisting of we know not exactly whether it be ·three hundred thousand or half a million troops, a personal corps, the Pretorian body-guard oi.' ·the Glol'iOus Duce, is not bound by an oath to the nation or the King, but to the person of Mussolini, an oath which binds one to lift a murderous hand even against one's own parents, at the pleasure of the Glorious Duce. Every O!l\>onent has been declared. hy a. law of Mussolini, .an enemy o[ his country, Ambassadors and consuls are no longer the r~presentatives of the nation abroad, bnt tile employes of Mussolini, althoughLord bless you!-they carefully abstain from saying so, or naturally even protest the contrary. Wh9soever has not given way and has not acC'epted the Fascist formula, has been dismissed. The chief function of the Embassies and Consulates abroad, to-day, is the organisation of Fascist groups, and the struggle, by every possible rn~.ans, against any opposition or opponents, against whom falsehood is the lightest weapon in their hands; all the rest being nothing else than a matter oJ ordinary administration. Poor Italy, we fix our gaze on your pallor, while you are covered with an imperial mantle, to serve more and more the lusts of insatiable Cains; and we weep because we love you so much, and because we know that you are forbidden even to weep! Not for this did the Carbonari, the B:rndieras, the Ugo Bassis, the CaYours, the Mazzin.is, the Garibaldis, and all the splendid band of precursors, martyrs and hP.roes of your Risorgimento, perish in prisons, or give np their lives on the scaffold, or immolate themselves on the fields of battle, or give their arm and brain and possessions to the cause of your freedom; no, surely, if the spirit of
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