FASCISM’S SUCCESS
BERNARD SHAW ASCRIBES IT TO CASTOR OIL MUSSOLINI DEFENDED (Rec. October 13, 7 p.m.) Rome, October 13. The Turin “Gazet del Popolo” publishes a remarkable letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw defending Signor Mussolini against Socialist attacks. Mr. Shaw says he previously appealed for courtesy towards the foreign statesman who instituted a dictatorship in a great modern country without a single personal advantage. “I say that Fascism’s success is due to castor oil, which is infantile. If it is so easy, why do not Communists establish a dictatorship ? They have plenty of castor oil. I consider that Signor Mussolini’s military prestige did for Italy after the war what Napoleon’s did for France at the time of the Directorate. If we compare Italy with Mazzini’s Utopia, it is full of abuses, but it is like America, France, England, and Russia. To argue against Fascism by citing the assassination of Matteotti is like citing the murder of Becket as an argument against feudalism.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11
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