ITALY UNDER FASCISM
NEW BODY OF POLITICAL POLICE MEMBERS PLEDGED TO SECRECY. Press Association—By.Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, December 9. The recent round-up of anti-Fascists has revealed tho existence of a new body of political police known as the Ovr'a, which is working directly under tho Ministry of the Interior, of which Signor Mussolini is tho head. The Ovra’s agents range from society people to porters, all being pledged to secrecy. The ‘ Tribuna ’ says: “ The Ovrn steps in before crimes aro committed, instead of afterwards. It is silent and sudden, and its arrests aro followed ly trial at special tribunals. There is nothing more to bo ’said.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20664, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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104ITALY UNDER FASCISM Evening Star, Issue 20664, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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