Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-27
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

mittee for Political Prisoners. 1t reads:
ITO the commander general of the
national militia:
LAS far as the men acquitted in the
trial of December are concerned, it
will be necessary to explain to them
that change of air and establishment
in another province is hygienic.
eff they insist upon remaining. and
consequently causing moral discomfort,
it will be necessary to beat them-not
too much, but, as Is customary, until
they decide to leave.
"Show only this part Of my letter to
the project, and say to him, in my
name, that have sufficient evidence to
justify my demand that the ruffians
should leave the city and province.
The questura will do we'll to prosecute
them at least weekly. and let the pre-
feet notify the Kings procuratore that
for possible beating (Which must be
in style) no trial is desired. Read this
part of the letter to the consiglio fed
erale. If write this from Rome it is
certain that I know of what speak.
That is enough"
When beating victim Gin style"
care is taken to strike only the lower
part OF his face, so as to break his jaw,
but not his skull. according to the Com
mlttee for Political Prisoners. A man
with broken jaw stays quiet long
time, yet he is not killed.
1t is boast of the Fascist that they
have not killed as many opponents as
have the Bolsheviki in Russia. In a
pro-Fascist book, 1.-The Universal Aspect
OF Fasc1sm," by j. S. Barnes, member
of the Royal Institute of International
Affairs, London, is this paragraph:
The last excuses committed of any
considerable gravity are already at the
time OF going to print. nearly one year
DID, namely, those following two con-
secutive attempts on Mussolinis life in
the Autumn of 1926. What was the an
sWer OF the Fascist government? The
prosecution and imprisonment of hun
dreds OF Fascists, the expulsion from
the ranks or the party of hundreds
more. the dismissal of large number
of projects. the strengthening of the
numbers and authority of the regular
police, and the assumption of the min
lstry OF the interior by Mussolini him.
self, IN order that his great prestige
ana authority might be exercised di-
rectly on the preservation of order and
the enforcement of discipline
Finally, it may be said in this con-
ueCtioH, 10 the credlt OF the Fascist rev.
olutlon, that the death roll has been ex-
ceedlngly small in comparison with
that entailed by other great revolutions
The total death roll of the revolution is
little more than 1000, and, OF these
1000 deaths, half have been incurred
by the revolutionaries themselves. The
victims of the revolution number
scarcely 1000! Compare the figures of
the French and Russian revolutions"
A footnote reads: According to the
official figures issued by the Moscow
government, there were executed Gin
RUSSIA over 100000 persons between
1918 and 1923" So the Fascist thanks
God that he Is not like other mem
even the Bolshevists who slaughter mil
lions where he kills thousands. 1t is
interesting to note that Italy's revolu-
ton has already cost 1000 lives, which
chances to be the same as the number
slain in the Revolution of the Thirteen
American Colonies against George III
IN l776-l763. But our dead were killed
In battles, not by cheka assassination.
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Mussolini holds to the theory that all
Italians. wherever they live, should still
owe allegiance to Italy He wants them
to be registered as absentee voters" in
Italian elections and to be subject to