PART VI. THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. December 6, 1922. "No progress can be made like this. Fascist circles nearest to the Government are determined to impose discipline on the newspapers as well. . In face of the spectacle daily offered by certain journals, no one will be surprised if the Fascist Government imposes a censorship and adopts still severer measures." Popolo d)ltalia (M ssolini's paper). December 7. "To all those concerned : a warning for their good. If it is the case that the Socialist papers, and in particular the so-called 'Unitary' Giustizia) have abandoned themselves to the most J esuitical campaigns against the Governn1ent . ''It is time to ask ·these gentlemen to stop it. 1'he Fascist revolution has been generous. . But woe to the Socialist and Communist leaders if they take undue advantage of it. The Fascist revolution has not proceeded to summary executions-and might very well have done so. But mind where you are going, old rabble of Italian Socialism.'' Popolo d)Italia (Mussolini's paper). December 13. "The Executive of the Fascia di _Combatti1nento (Militant Fascists) of Milan . warns the editorial board of the journal La Giusti!ia not to give publicity any longer to statements which are devoid of any foundation in fact, or tendencious, or such as to excite class hatred, and gives notice that, should it continue to practise this perverse type of journalism, the Milan Fascia will decide on the measures which it deems necessary to restore it to the observance of proper standards of journalistic correctness and honesty." Popolo d)Italia (Mussolini's paper). January 5, 1923. The police authorities send a. circular to the newspapers, to '' intimate, by Government order, that they must not publish any news of the 120 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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