intention of still playing some part on the political stage, they know, and all Italians should know, that I should call out the Black Shirts, many of whom are chewing the bit and growing impatient.'' Mussolini, speech at Cremona. June tg. ''There are certain Italian political corpses, who delude themselves with the idea that they are still living because they are abusing our generosity. We shall no longer do them the honour of regarding them as enemies. . . . Black Shirts of Tuscany .and Florence, if it is necessary to re-commence, will you re-commence?" Af ussolini, speech at Florence. June 25. "The Fascists are entering some dwellings in order to remind recalcitrants of their duty to vote.'' L' Intrepido, a Fascist daily paper in Lucca. July 8. ''The Fascist revolution made the mistake of not bringing before a special tribunal of National Defence the wretch~d Senator who is betraying the Dalmatians by an i"nfamous campaign. But many Fascists have not forgotten, and will not forget to the end of their lives, Albertini's 2 betrayal." Popolo d'Italia. July 8. "The subversives have found unhoped-for allies in the Liberalism of Luigi Albertini and the Popu- ·larism of Luigi Sturzo, • and in the interminable disputes of Fascism in these latter days. . . . ·To these two must be added the name of Filippo Turati. The conviction that the Fascist Government is now impregnable, also feeds the exasperation of the brutalised followers of the Red creed. While the Government is on the watch and is ordering the a.rrest of subversives and the raking in of arms on a vast scale, the possibility still remains that the series of treacherous crimes may con- • Senator Albertini is the editor of the Corriere della Sera, the &reat Liberal daily.-Trans. • Don Luigi Sturzo was the founder and leader until recently of the Catholic Popular Party.-Trans. 77 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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