FASCIST ANNIVERSARY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 March 1926, Page 5

FASCIST ANNIVERSARY.

CELEBRATIONS IN ROME

AI US'S O LIN r S SP E ECH. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. ROME, March 28. “Fascist Italy is both loved and feared abroad, but I do not attach importance to what foreigners think or write,” said Signor Mussolini, Premier, addressing troops in Rome on Sunday, the seventh anniversary of Fascism.

“It is natural that plutocracy, Liberalism, Freemasonary and Democracy should combine against Fascism. "Imt antagonistic forces must copy Fascism or die,” he said. “Foreigners must end gossipy Parliamentarism and give the executive greater power to regulate Labour and capital as the Fascists have done.”

Signor Mussolini sent a message to the people recalling that after seven years, the situation had cleared and the opposition had dispersed. He urged the “Black Shirts” to renewed endeavours for national consolidation with the watchword “discipline.” Signor Mussolini thereupon reviewed the Fascists front an aeroplane. Later, he addressed them, asking them not to forget the destiny of Italy under their safeguard as the nation was worthy of the name of ail Entpire. Eroin early morning, Fascists paraded the streets with ensigns and bands and trains, and public buildings were decorated with pictures of Mussolini everywhere.