all the rabble that Italy is still in arms not only against the pestilential subversives, but also against Cagoia and his skinny, miserable clerics. . " Popolo d'Italia. (Mussolini's paper.) October 22. ''If the (internal) enemies move, we must have the courage to post guards with fixed bayonets, to say: 'Halt! No thoroughfare!' " Giunta, speech to the Fascist 'frade Unions. October 24. '' . Three days after the Naples congress we took Rome, and began the work of scraping and cleaning which is not yet finished and must continue." Mussolini, speech at Turin. October 28. '' . I beg you, Fascists, to bear in mind that the revolution was the work of cudgels. What have you in your hands now?'' (The Fascists shout: "Rifles, bombs, machine-guns!") "If tomorrow the alarm were sounded, the signal for those great days wliich decide the destiny of peoples, would you respond?" ("Yes, we swear it!") " . . ·If to-morrow I told you that you must continue the march to the end, but in other directions, would you march?" ("Yes.") " . . The Fascist Government will last because we shall systematically scatter our enemies. . . " Mussolini, speech at Milan. November 7. "The repeated and foolish attempts of the many-coloured opposition parties, ranging from Luigi Albertini to Enrico Malatesta, excite no apprehension. Similar attempts were made at Milan by the Unitary Socialists, who tried to engineer a base political trick, taking advantage of the turning back of a procession to celebrate victory-a speculation honestly and rightfully suppressed by the Fascists. . . . . There is an opinion that all. this is the prelude to the formation of a single libero-demo-social-anarchicorepublico-popular-Sturzian front. Such a single front has already been once thrown into utter confusion, in 80 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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