SHIRTS AND POLITICS
The Italian patriot, Grribsdd . and his followers were red sbi ts in them nineteenth-century for Trahan indonendenc’. In ] Signor Mussolini adopted the idea for his march on Rome, but use the colour black. Herr Kider 3 Nazis followed this modern lead with brown shirts, and the vomi® spread far and wide. To-day there are Brazilian green sh'r's. Am?’’’* can silver shirts, Mexican E°h shirts, and French blue shirts. The latest development is the adootion of co’oured shirts by the Sturmkcros, the snecial netv guardsmen of Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22271, 9 December 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)
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