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| Facsimile Letter | [vi] |
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| Introduction: a Note on Italian Fascismo | [ix] |
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| Reproduction of the Original of the Manifesto issued by the Hon. Mussolini after He and His Party succeeded to the Government | [xx] |
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| English Translation | [xxi] |
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| PART I |
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| MUSSOLINI THE “SOCIALIST” |
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| “Do not think that by taking away my Membership Card you will take away my Faith in the Cause” | [3] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 25th November 1914.) |
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| PART II |
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| MUSSOLINI THE “MAN OF THE WAR” |
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| For the Liberty of Humanity and the Future of Italy | [9] |
| (Speech delivered at Parma, 13th December 1914.) |
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| “Either War or the End of Italy’s Name as a Great Power” | [18] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 25th January 1915.) |
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| “To the Complete Vanquishing of the Huns” | [25] |
| (Speech delivered at Sesto San Giovanni, 1st December 1917.) |
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| “No Turning Back!” | [30] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 24th February 1918.) |
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| The Fatal Victory | [37] |
| (Speech delivered at Bologna, 24th May 1918.) |
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| “In Honour of the American People” | [49] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 8th April 1918.) |
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| The League of Nations | [52] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 20th October 1918.) |
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| In Celebration of Victory | [58] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 11th November 1918.) |
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| PART III |
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| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE” |
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| Workmen’s Rights After the War | [63] |
| (Speech delivered at Dalmine, 20th March 1919.) |
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| Sacrifice, Work, and Production | [67] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 5th February 1920.) |
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| “We are not against Labour, but against the Socialist Party, in as far as it remains Anti-Italian” | [71] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 24th May 1920.) |
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| Fascismo’s Interests for the Working Classes | [75] |
| (Speech delivered at Ferrara, 4th April 1921.) |
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| “My Father was a Blacksmith and I have Worked with Him; He bent Iron, but I have the harder task of Bending Souls” | [79] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 6th December 1922.) |
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| Labour to take the First Place in New Italy | [82] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 6th January 1923.) |
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| PART IV |
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| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA” |
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| The Three Declarations at the First Fascista Meeting | [87] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 23rd March 1919.) |
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| Outline of the Aims and Programme of Fascismo | [92] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 22nd July 1919.) |
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| Fascismo and the Rights of Victory | [103] |
| (Speech delivered at Florence, 9th October 1919.) |
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| The Tasks of Fascismo | [108] |
| (Speech delivered at Trieste, 20th September 1920.) |
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| Fascismo and the Problems of Foreign Policy | [121] |
| (Speech delivered at Trieste, 6th February 1921.) |
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| How Fascismo was Created | [134] |
| (Speech delivered at Bologna, 3rd April 1921.) |
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| The Italy We Want Within, and Her Foreign Relations | [143] |
| (Speech delivered at Udine.) |
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| “The Piave and Vittorio Veneto mark the Beginning of New Italy” | [158] |
| (Speech delivered at Cremona, 25th September 1922.) |
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| The Fascista Dawning of New Italy | [161] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 6th October 1922.) |
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| “The Moment has arrived when the Arrow must leave the Bow or the Cord will Break” | [171] |
| (Speech delivered at Naples, 26th October 1922.) |
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| PART V |
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| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA MEMBER OF |
| PARLIAMENT” |
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| Fascismo and the New Provinces | [183] |
| (Speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) |
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| The Question of Montenegro’s Independence | [189] |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) |
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| D’Annunzio and Fiume | [192] |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) |
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| Italy, Sionism, and the English Mandate in Palestine | [194] |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) |
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| The Attitude of Fascismo towards Communism and Socialism | [196] |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) |
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| The Attitude of Fascismo towards the Popular Party. The Vatican and Social Democracy | [201] |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) |
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| PART VI |
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| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA PRIME MINISTER” |
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| A New Cromwell in the Parliament | [207] |
| (Speech delivered in the Chamber, 16th November 1922.) |
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| The Foreign Policy of the Fascista Government | [210] |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 16th November 1922.) |
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| The Policy of Fascismo for Italy: Economy, Work and Discipline | [215] |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 16th November 1922.) |
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| “Conscientious General Diagnosis of the Conditions of the Country and its Foreign Policy” | [219] |
| (Speech delivered before the Senate, 27th November 1922.) |
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| “I Remain the Head of Fascismo, Although the Head of the Italian Government” | [227] |
| (Speech delivered in London, 12th December 1922.) |
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| “Our Task in History is to make a United State of the Italian Nation” | [228] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 2nd January 1923.) |
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| The Advance in the Ruhr District | [230] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 15th January 1923, before the Cabinet.) |
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| The Government of Speed | [234] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 19th January 1923, at the headquarters of Motor Transport Company.) |
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| The March of Events on the Ruhr. The Position of Italy | [235] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 23rd January 1923, before the Cabinet.) |
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| The Ruhr, the Conference of Lausanne, and the Port of Memel | [240] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 1st February 1923, before the Cabinet.) |
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| Ratification of the Washington Treaty of Naval Disarmament | [243] |
| (Speech delivered before the Chamber of Deputies, 6th February 1923.) |
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| Message from the Hon. Mussolini to the Italians in America upon the Occasion of the Signing of the Convention for the Laying of Cables between Italy and the American Continent | [245] |
| (Rome, 6th February 1923.) |
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| For the Carrying Out of the Treaty of Rapallo | [247] |
| (Prefatory remarks to the Deputies, 8th February 1923, accompanying the Project of Law presented by the Hon. Mussolini, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister.) |
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| The Agreements of Santa Margherita. Italy and Yugoslavia | [251] |
| (Speech delivered before the Chamber of Deputies, 10th February 1923.) |
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| Questions of Foreign Policy before the Senate. The Ruhr; Fiume; Zara and Dalmatia | [258] |
| (Speech delivered before the Senate, 16th February 1923.) |
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| A Review of European Politics in their Relation with Italy | [264] |
| (Speech delivered before the Cabinet, 2nd March 1923.) |
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| The Italo-Yugoslav Conference for the Commercial Treaty | [271] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 6th March 1923.) |
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| “History Tells Us that Strict Finance has brought Nations to Security” | [272] |
| (Speech delivered at the Ministry of Finance, 7th March 1923.) |
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| “It is not the Economic System of Europe alone that we have to restore to its full Efficiency” | [274] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 18th March 1923.) |
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| “Only Those who Profited by the War Grumbled and still Grumble, Cursed and still Curse at the War” | [276] |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 29th March 1923.) |
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| “Patriotism is not Formed by Mere Words” | [277] |
| (Speech delivered at Arosio, near Milan, 30th March 1923.) |
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| Questions of Foreign Policy before the Cabinet | [278] |
| (Speech delivered before the Cabinet, 7th April 1923.) |
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| “Mine is not a Government which Deceives the People” | [284] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 2nd June 1923.) |
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| “In Time Past as in Time Present, Woman had always a Preponderant Influence in Shaping the Destinies of Humanity” | [286] |
| (Speech delivered at Padua, 2nd June 1923.) |
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| “So long as these Students and these Universities Exist, the Nation cannot Perish and become a Slave, because Universities smash Fetters without allowing the Forging of New Ones” | [289] |
| (Speech delivered at the University of Padua, 3rd June 1923.) |
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| Italy’s Foreign Policy regarding German Reparations, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Russia Poland and other Countries | [293] |
| (Speech delivered before the Senate, 8th June 1923.) |
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| “The Internal Policy” | [306] |
| (Speech delivered before the Senate, 8th June 1923.) |
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| “As Sardinia has been Great in War, so likewise will she be Great in Peace” | [320] |
| (Speech delivered at Sassari (Sardinia), 10th June 1923.) |
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| “Men Pass Away, maybe Governments too, but Italy Lives and will never Die” | [323] |
| (Speech delivered at Cagliari (Sardinia), 12th June 1923.) |
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| “Fascismo will bring a Complete Regeneration to Your Land” | [326] |
| (Speech delivered at Iglesias (Sardinia), 13th June 1923.) |
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| “As we have Regained the Mastery of the Air, we do not want the Sea to Imprison Us” | [328] |
| (Speech delivered at Florence, 19th June 1923.) |
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| “I Promise You—and God is my Witness—that I shall continue now and always to be a Humble Servant of our Adored Italy” | [330] |
| (Speech delivered at Florence, 19th June 1923.) |
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| “The Victory of the Piave was the Deciding Factor of the War” | [331] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 25th June 1923.) |
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| The Relations between Italy and the United States | [335] |
| (Speech delivered by the American Ambassador at Rome, 28th June 1923, and the Italian Prime Minister’s reply.) |
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| “The Greatness of the Country will be Achieved by the New Generations” | [343] |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 2nd July 1923.) |
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| The Situation on the Ruhr and Other Questions of Foreign Policy | [345] |
| (Speech delivered 3rd July 1923, at the Council of Ministers.) |
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| The Electoral Reform Bill | [347] |
| (Speech delivered before the Chamber of Deputies, 16th July 1923.) |
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| The Massacre of the Italian Delegation for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian Frontier | [363] |
| (Rome, 27th August 1923.) |
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| Index | [365] |