ous vipers are not coddled and allowed their freedom." Popolo dJItalia. . July 25. '·' So long as the State has not become completely Fascist, so long, that is, as there has not been completely carried out, in all the State administrations and institutions, the replacement of the directing class 9f yesterday by a directing class of Fascists or of . members of sworn allegiance to Fascism, . . . the Government, which made the revolution and has assumed all the responsibilities it involves, will be unable to dispense with the armed force of the Black Shirts.'' Mussolini} ,declaration to the Fascist Grand Council. July 31. "Brought up to 500,000, the Black Shirts constitute the formidable army destined to guarantee the continuity of the Fascist Government. . . The mischievous and underhand Sicilian priest 1 and his party following must be considered as enemies of the Government and of Fascism ;_the sa1ne applies to the -Unitary Socialists who have grouped themselves around the old and worn-out lay figures of Reformism.'' Grand Fascist Council. * * * * * September I. Against the local clergy : ''We shall exhume an ardito's:i blade from- the trenches where we learned the quick stab which rips a man open like a pig.'' Il Fascista, an Alba paper. October 11. "When the pig of Basilicata s was in 1 power he allowed the civil servants to celebrate the first of May. . . . Revolutions have their rights and it is not well to leave them unfulfilled. . In spite of Cagoia, there will be formidable celebrations of the march on Rome, and the ten thousand banners which will defile through the capital vvill impress vividly upon 1 Don Sturzo. 2 The arditi were the Italian shock troops.-Trans. a Signor Nitti.-Trans. 79 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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