SEVEN YEARS OF FASCISM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10704, 31 March 1926, Page 6

SEVEN YEARS OF FASCISM

MUSSOLINI'S MESSAGE.

THE DESTINY OF ITALY. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) ROME, March 29. In connection with the seventh anniversary of Fascism, the Premier, Signer Mussolini, sent a message to the people recalling that after seven years the situation had cleared and opposition had been dispersed. He urged the Black Shirts to renewed endeavours toward national consolidation with the watchword of "Discipline" continuing unchanged. Mussolini reviewed the Fascists from an aeroplane and later addressed them, asking them not to forget .that the destiny of Italy was under their safeguard as a nation worthy of the name of an Empire. From early morning, the Fascists paraded the streets with ensigns. Public buildings were decorated with pictures of Mussolini everywhere.

"Fascist Italy is both loved and feared abroad, butl do not attach importance to what foreigners think or write," said Mussolini, addressing the troops. "It is natural that plutocracy, Liberalism, Freemasonry, and democracy should combine against Fascism, but antagonistic forces must copy Fascism or die. Foreigners must end their gossipy parliamentarianism and give executives greater power to regulate labour and capital as the Fascists have done."