Mussolini As Revealed in His Political Speeches

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Author

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945

Title

Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches (November 1914-August 1923)

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta

Subject

Partito nazionale fascista (Italy)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 62754

Release Date

July 25, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MUSSOLINI AS REVEALED IN HIS POLITICAL SPEECHES ( November 1914–August 1923 )
2. 2.INTRODUCTION A NOTE ON ITALIAN FASCISMO
3. 3.( English Translation )
4. 4.ERRATA
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.PART I MUSSOLINI THE “SOCIALIST” — “DO NOT THINK THAT BY TAKING AWAY MY MEMBERSHIP CARD YOU WILL TAKE AWAY MY FAITH IN THE CAUSE”
7. 7.PART II MUSSOLINI THE “MAN OF THE WAR” — FOR THE LIBERTY OF HUMANITY AND THE FUTURE OF ITALY — “EITHER WAR OR THE END OF ITALY’S NAME AS A GREAT POWER” — “TO THE COMPLETE VANQUISHING OF THE HUNS” — “NO TURNING BACK!” — THE FATAL VICTORY — “IN HONOUR OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” — THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS — IN CELEBRATION OF VICTORY
8. 8.PART III MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE” — WORKMEN’S RIGHTS AFTER THE WAR — SACRIFICE, WORK, AND PRODUCTION — “WE ARE NOT AGAINST LABOUR, BUT AGAINST THE SOCIALIST PARTY, IN AS FAR AS IT REMAINS ANTI-ITALIAN” — FASCISMO’S INTERESTS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES — “MY FATHER WAS A BLACKSMITH AND I HAVE WORKED WITH HIM; HE BENT IRON, BUT I HAVE THE HARDER TASK OF BENDING SOULS” — LABOUR TO TAKE THE FIRST PLACE IN NEW ITALY
9. 9.PART IV MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA” — THE THREE DECLARATIONS AT THE FIRST FASCISTA MEETING — OUTLINE OF THE AIMS AND PROGRAMME OF FASCISMO — FASCISMO AND THE RIGHTS OF VICTORY — THE TASKS OF FASCISMO — FASCISMO AND THE PROBLEMS OF FOREIGN POLICY — HOW FASCISMO WAS CREATED ITS EVOLUTION AND ESSENCE — THE ITALY WE WANT WITHIN, AND HER FOREIGN RELATIONS — “THE PIAVE AND VITTORIO VENETO MARK THE BEGINNING OF NEW ITALY” — THE FASCISTA DAWNING OF NEW ITALY — “THE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED WHEN THE ARROW MUST LEAVE THE BOW OR THE CORD WILL BREAK!”
10. 10.PART V MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT” — FASCISMO AND THE NEW PROVINCES — THE QUESTION OF MONTENEGRO’S INDEPENDENCE — D’ANNUNZIO AND FIUME — ITALY, SIONISM, AND THE ENGLISH MANDATE IN PALESTINE — THE ATTITUDE OF FASCISMO TOWARDS COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM — THE ATTITUDE OF FASCISMO TOWARDS THE POPULAR PARTY. THE VATICAN AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
11. 11.PART VI MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA PRIME MINISTER” — MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA PRIME MINISTER” — A NEW CROMWELL IN THE PARLIAMENT — THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE FASCISTA GOVERNMENT — THE POLICY OF FASCISMO FOR ITALY: ECONOMY, WORK AND DISCIPLINE — “CONSCIENTIOUS GENERAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE COUNTRY AND ITS FOREIGN POLICY” — “I REMAIN THE HEAD OF FASCISMO, ALTHOUGH THE HEAD OF THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT” — “OUR TASK IN HISTORY IS TO MAKE A UNITED STATE OF THE ITALIAN NATION” — THE ADVANCE IN THE RUHR DISTRICT — THE GOVERNMENT OF SPEED — THE MARCH OF EVENTS ON THE RUHR THE POSITION OF ITALY — THE RUHR, THE CONFERENCE OF LAUSANNE AND THE PORT OF MEMEL — RATIFICATION OF THE WASHINGTON TREATY OF NAVAL DISARMAMENT — 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 — FOR THE CARRYING OUT OF THE TREATY OF RAPALLO — THE AGREEMENTS OF SANTA MARGHERITA, ITALY AND YUGOSLAVIA — QUESTIONS OF FOREIGN POLICY BEFORE THE SENATE. THE RUHR; FIUME; ZARA AND DALMATIA — A REVIEW OF EUROPEAN POLITICS IN THEIR RELATION WITH ITALY — THE ITALO-YUGOSLAV CONFERENCE FOR THE COMMERCIAL TREATY — “HISTORY TELLS US THAT STRICT FINANCE HAS BROUGHT NATIONS TO SECURITY” — “IT IS NOT THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF EUROPE ALONE THAT WE HAVE TO RESTORE TO ITS FULL EFFICIENCY” — “ONLY THOSE WHO PROFITED BY THE WAR GRUMBLED AND STILL GRUMBLE, CURSED AND STILL CURSE AT THE WAR” — “PATRIOTISM IS NOT FORMED BY MERE WORDS” — QUESTIONS OF FOREIGN POLICY BEFORE THE CABINET — “MINE IS NOT A GOVERNMENT WHICH DECEIVES THE PEOPLE” — “IN TIME PAST AS IN TIME PRESENT, WOMAN HAD ALWAYS A PREPONDERANT INFLUENCE IN SHAPING THE DESTINIES OF HUMANITY” — “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” — ITALY’S FOREIGN POLICY REGARDING GERMAN REPARATIONS, HUNGARY, BULGARIA, AUSTRIA, YUGOSLAVIA, TURKEY, RUSSIA, POLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES — “THE INTERNAL POLICY” — “AS SARDINIA HAS BEEN GREAT IN WAR, SO LIKEWISE WILL SHE BE GREAT IN PEACE” — “MEN PASS AWAY, MAYBE GOVERNMENTS TOO, BUT ITALY LIVES AND WILL NEVER DIE” — “FASCISMO WILL BRING A COMPLETE REGENERATION TO YOUR LAND” — “AS WE HAVE REGAINED THE MASTERY OF THE AIR, WE DO NOT WANT THE SEA TO IMPRISON US” — “I PROMISE YOU—AND GOD IS MY WITNESS—THAT I SHALL CONTINUE NOW AND ALWAYS TO BE A HUMBLE SERVANT OF OUR ADORED ITALY” — “THE VICTORY OF THE PIAVE WAS THE DECIDING FACTOR OF THE WAR” — THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES — “THE GREATNESS OF THE COUNTRY WILL BE ACHIEVED BY THE NEW GENERATIONS” — THE SITUATION ON THE RUHR AND OTHER QUESTIONS OF FOREIGN POLICY — THE ELECTORAL REFORM BILL — THE MASSACRE OF THE ITALIAN DELEGATION FOR THE DELIMITATION OF THE GRECO-ALBANIAN FRONTIER
12. 12.INDEX

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