ITALY UNDER FASCISM
AMAZING FIGURES Pros* Awoculiou—Bjr Telegraph-Copyright HOME, November 9. (Received November 10, at 12.45 p.m.) Amazing figures of Fascism were disclosed by the Grand Fascist Council. The Balilla, or Fascist nursery, contains 800,000 boys and 250,000 girls; 3,180 co-operative organisations arc annually distributing goods valued at 025.000. lire, and 1,270 Labor cooperatives carried out works for the year.-valued at 370,000,000 lire: 954 depots sold 322,000,000 lire worth of agricultural merchandise." There arc also 600 agricultural mutual aid societies, with a capital of a billion lire. Signor Mussolini, in a. three hours’ speech in camera, said that there were 1,029,000 registered Fascists, .. with 1.000. as a permanent nucleus of the Fascist army.
The council resolved that all responsible positions must bo filled by proved Fascists, ami .that an embargo lie laid on new enrolments to eliminate the unfit in favor of seeking members who will keenly fight the revival of the antiFascist spirit.
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Evening Star, Issue 19710, 10 November 1927, Page 6
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