August, 1922. . . . To-day the task of burying, once for all, the .opposition parties en bloc is much easier. The Black Shirts only await a word of command.'' Volta Agency, official communication. Novem her 26. ''For some time past, Count Sforza 1 -marquis of falsehood-has ~een active in political and diplomatic circles, trying to bury in oblivion the shamelessness which has for ever exiled him from Italian diplomacy and political life. That Count Sforza should still show activity, now that he has escaped from the castor oil which the Fascists of his country intended justly to administer to him, is comprehensible, but it is not so easy to understand the line of conduct adopted by M. Barrere,' who ought to be beginning to realise that in Fascist Italy greater discretion is absolutely necessary. . . . " Popolo d'ltalia. November 29. "Four hundred officers of militia, ready to kill and to die for their country and for Fascism, send to the 'Puce' ('leader') of the new Italy their most faithful and .formidable A noi ! ('Up and at then1 !') Signed: De Bono, Fara, Sacco, Belloni, Gagliano, Terruzzi, Agostini, Guglielmotti, Verme, Ragioni." Telegram to Signor Mussolini frotn Naples, sent by De Bono, director-general of the National Militia. November 23. "Around the Duce there is a tumult of joyfully-beating hearts and an unbreakable barrier of arms and armed men. The former is the proof of consent ; the latter will show force when necessary, and will make it prevail." Popolo d'ltalia. "Although Fascism is a typically Italian phenomenon, there is no doubt that some of its postulates are of a universal order, since many countries have suffered and are suffering from the degeneration of democratic and 1 Formerly Foreign Minister. He was Ambassador in Paris in 1922, and resigned that post on Signor Mussolini's accession tc power.-Trans. s French ambassador in Rome.-T rans. 81 Biblioteca G-ino Bianco
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