At Palermo all the Prefects of Sicily were summoned to a meeting under the presidency of Signor Terruzzi, who holds no Stat.e appointment whatever, but is merely a men1ber of the executive committee of the Fascist party. The Prefects, police superintendents and commandants of carabincers have ~lways, in every important question, to consult the leader of the local Fascia. Some Prefects actually take part in Fascist public demonstrations against other parties (for example, the Prefect of Trapani on October 4, 1923). October 28 to 30 was celebrated as a national festival in commemoration of the violent conquest of power by the Fascists. Even the King took part in it. 1"he Fascist trade union federations issue proclamations such as this : "It has been Rscertained that the rural workers are forming armed bands directed against the Fasc_ist trade unionists, ~nd that the authority of the Prefect no ''You are accordingly to adopt the following measures : "Both at meetings of the Fasci for the nomination of Political Secretaries, and in the meetings of Provincial Councils for nominations to the Federations and nominations of Provincial Secretaries, there is to be allowed the fullest liberty of discussion. The discussion is to take place under the forms of procedure dictated by the most elementary sense of civil and political education. No violence of any sort is to be allowed ; Fascists are to be prevented from bringing arms into the meeting. Fascists already expelled who try to re-enter the meeting hall will immediately be arrested by the National Militia and the Carabineers. • "The chairman of the meeting will have at his disposition within the hall the senior commanding officer of the Militia, to whom he will give necessary instructions for the maintenance of internal order. "Outside the hall there will be a delegate of the police, with a detachment of Royal Carabineers. "If serious disturbances should break out at any time, the police authority will be authorised to break up the meeting, occupy the hall and detain the Fascio. "All those within the hall who prove to have been provoking disturbances or violence may be arrested." (November, 1923.) 59 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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