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| Facsimile Letter | vi |
| Introduction: a Note on Italian Fascismo | ix |
| Reproduction of the Original of the Manifesto issued by the Hon. Mussolini after He and His Party succeeded to the Government | xx |
| English Translation | xxi |
| PART I | |
| MUSSOLINI THE “SOCIALIST” | |
| “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.) | |
| PART II | |
| MUSSOLINI THE “MAN OF THE WAR” | |
| For the Liberty of Humanity and the Future of Italy | 9 |
| (Speech delivered at Parma, 13th December 1914.) | |
| “Either War or the End of Italy’s Name as a Great Power” | 18 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 25th January 1915.) | |
| “To the Complete Vanquishing of the Huns” | 25 |
| (Speech delivered at Sesto San Giovanni, 1st December 1917.) | |
| “No Turning Back!” | 30 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 24th February 1918.) | |
| The Fatal Victory | 37 |
| (Speech delivered at Bologna, 24th May 1918.) | |
| “In Honour of the American People” | 49 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 8th April 1918.) | |
| The League of Nations | 52 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 20th October 1918.) | |
| In Celebration of Victory | 58 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 11th November 1918.) | |
| PART III | |
| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE” | |
| Workmen’s Rights After the War | 63 |
| (Speech delivered at Dalmine, 20th March 1919.) | |
| Sacrifice, Work, and Production | 67 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 5th February 1920.) | |
| “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.) | |
| Fascismo’s Interests for the Working Classes | 75 |
| (Speech delivered at Ferrara, 4th April 1921.) | |
| “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.) | |
| Labour to take the First Place in New Italy | 82 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 6th January 1923.) | |
| PART IV | |
| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA” | |
| The Three Declarations at the First Fascista Meeting | 87 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 23rd March 1919.) | |
| Outline of the Aims and Programme of Fascismo | 92 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 22nd July 1919.) | |
| Fascismo and the Rights of Victory | 103 |
| (Speech delivered at Florence, 9th October 1919.) | |
| The Tasks of Fascismo | 108 |
| (Speech delivered at Trieste, 20th September 1920.) | |
| Fascismo and the Problems of Foreign Policy | 121 |
| (Speech delivered at Trieste, 6th February 1921.) | |
| How Fascismo was Created | 134 |
| (Speech delivered at Bologna, 3rd April 1921.) | |
| The Italy We Want Within, and Her Foreign Relations | 143 |
| (Speech delivered at Udine.) | |
| “The Piave and Vittorio Veneto mark the Beginning of New Italy” | 158 |
| (Speech delivered at Cremona, 25th September 1922.) | |
| The Fascista Dawning of New Italy | 161 |
| (Speech delivered at Milan, 6th October 1922.) | |
| “The Moment has arrived when the Arrow must leave the Bow or the Cord will Break” | 171 |
| (Speech delivered at Naples, 26th October 1922.) | |
| PART V | |
| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA MEMBER OF | |
| PARLIAMENT” | |
| Fascismo and the New Provinces | 183 |
| (Speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) | |
| The Question of Montenegro’s Independence | 189 |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) | |
| D’Annunzio and Fiume | 192 |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) | |
| Italy, Sionism, and the English Mandate in Palestine | 194 |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) | |
| The Attitude of Fascismo towards Communism and Socialism | 196 |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) | |
| The Attitude of Fascismo towards the Popular Party. The Vatican and Social Democracy | 201 |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921.) | |
| PART VI | |
| MUSSOLINI THE “FASCISTA PRIME MINISTER” | |
| A New Cromwell in the Parliament | 207 |
| (Speech delivered in the Chamber, 16th November 1922.) | |
| The Foreign Policy of the Fascista Government | 210 |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 16th November 1922.) | |
| The Policy of Fascismo for Italy: Economy, Work and Discipline | 215 |
| (Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 16th November 1922.) | |
| “Conscientious General Diagnosis of the Conditions of the Country and its Foreign Policy” | 219 |
| (Speech delivered before the Senate, 27th November 1922.) | |
| “I Remain the Head of Fascismo, Although the Head of the Italian Government” | 227 |
| (Speech delivered in London, 12th December 1922.) | |
| “Our Task in History is to make a United State of the Italian Nation” | 228 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 2nd January 1923.) | |
| The Advance in the Ruhr District | 230 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 15th January 1923, before the Cabinet.) | |
| The Government of Speed | 234 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 19th January 1923, at the headquarters of Motor Transport Company.) | |
| The March of Events on the Ruhr. The Position of Italy | 235 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 23rd January 1923, before the Cabinet.) | |
| The Ruhr, the Conference of Lausanne, and the Port of Memel | 240 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 1st February 1923, before the Cabinet.) | |
| Ratification of the Washington Treaty of Naval Disarmament | 243 |
| (Speech delivered before the Chamber of Deputies, 6th February 1923.) | |
| 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.) | |
| 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.) | |
| The Agreements of Santa Margherita. Italy and Yugoslavia | 251 |
| (Speech delivered before the Chamber of Deputies, 10th February 1923.) | |
| Questions of Foreign Policy before the Senate. The Ruhr; Fiume; Zara and Dalmatia | 258 |
| (Speech delivered before the Senate, 16th February 1923.) | |
| A Review of European Politics in their Relation with Italy | 264 |
| (Speech delivered before the Cabinet, 2nd March 1923.) | |
| The Italo-Yugoslav Conference for the Commercial Treaty | 271 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 6th March 1923.) | |
| “History Tells Us that Strict Finance has brought Nations to Security” | 272 |
| (Speech delivered at the Ministry of Finance, 7th March 1923.) | |
| “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.) | |
| “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.) | |
| “Patriotism is not Formed by Mere Words” | 277 |
| (Speech delivered at Arosio, near Milan, 30th March 1923.) | |
| Questions of Foreign Policy before the Cabinet | 278 |
| (Speech delivered before the Cabinet, 7th April 1923.) | |
| “Mine is not a Government which Deceives the People” | 284 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 2nd June 1923.) | |
| “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.) | |
| “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.) | |
| 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.) | |
| “The Internal Policy” | 306 |
| (Speech delivered before the Senate, 8th June 1923.) | |
| “As Sardinia has been Great in War, so likewise will she be Great in Peace” | 320 |
| (Speech delivered at Sassari (Sardinia), 10th June 1923.) | |
| “Men Pass Away, maybe Governments too, but Italy Lives and will never Die” | 323 |
| (Speech delivered at Cagliari (Sardinia), 12th June 1923.) | |
| “Fascismo will bring a Complete Regeneration to Your Land” | 326 |
| (Speech delivered at Iglesias (Sardinia), 13th June 1923.) | |
| “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.) | |
| “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.) | |
| “The Victory of the Piave was the Deciding Factor of the War” | 331 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 25th June 1923.) | |
| 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.) | |
| “The Greatness of the Country will be Achieved by the New Generations” | 343 |
| (Speech delivered at Rome, 2nd July 1923.) | |
| The Situation on the Ruhr and Other Questions of Foreign Policy | 345 |
| (Speech delivered 3rd July 1923, at the Council of Ministers.) | |
| The Electoral Reform Bill | 347 |
| (Speech delivered before the Chamber of Deputies, 16th July 1923.) | |
| The Massacre of the Italian Delegation for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian Frontier | 363 |
| (Rome, 27th August 1923.) | |
| Index | 365 |