''For it is possible that force may induce a discovery of consent, and in any case where consent is lacking there is still force." Mussolini, speech in the Ministry of Finances. March 4. ''The emissaries of Moscow and their \tvorthy companions must understand .at last that the times have changed. Otherwise they will be made to learn it by those who have the right and the duty to make them, and it will be a painful e·xperience. '' Popolo d' Italia. * * * * * June 21. "When the head of the Government sends out his appeal, 'A n.oi 1' ('Up, and at then1 1'), the people will assist the Black Shirts 1 in overturning every cbstacle :n the v1ay of the consummation of the revolution." Popolo d' Italia. June 9. '' But if the enemy raise their heads again, and make their more or less stupid opposition heard, the Fascists will close ranks once more; and then, woe to the vanquished ! . . . The dominant feature of those two years, 1921 and 1922, was the succession of Fascist punitive expeditions. The necessity of the case drove the Fascists to proceed to the assault of the towns in vast armed masses. . The measures adopted for the restoration of public order are : first of all, the raking in of the so-called sovversivi ("subversives"). . . • . It has been quite a modest affair: two thousand drrested ; 150 are still in prison. They were elements of disorder and subversivism. It may be that Liberal practice would permit these elements to be allowed a free hand, but I am not inclined to follow that practice. . . " Mussolini, speech in the Senate. June 19. -"Let no one abuse our spirit of generosity; otherwise force will be resorted to. If those residual elements of whom I spoke . . should have any 1 That is, the Fascists. Biblioteca Gino Bianco ◄
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