THE SWORD AS LAW
MUSSOLINI IN 1913. “At the time when the Government of Italy was setting about the conquest of Tripoli, in 1913, the Italian Socialist paper, ‘Avanti,’ printed an article containing the following paragraph: ‘Here then we are confronted by an Italy, nationalist, conservative, clerical, which claims to make the sword its law, and the army the school of the nation. We hqd foreseen this moral perversion, and, for that reason, are not" surprised by it. But those who think that this preponderance of militarism is a sign of strength are mightily mistaken. Strong people have no need to give themselves up to such a stupid orgy as that in which the Italian Press is letting itself go with mad exaltation. Strong peoples have some sense of measure. Italy, nationalist and militarist, shows that it lacks this sense .... Thus it comes almost that a miserable war of conquest is acclaimed as if it were a Roman triumph.’ “The name signed to this admirable expression of opinion was ‘Benito Mussolini.’ ” —Dr Nicholas Murray Butler.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3825, 23 October 1936, Page 10
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