Translator's note :

I am translating these passages of the great Milan speech
because I believe that Oswald Mosley is unfit to represent
the spirit of COMMUNIST Fascism in England. I still believe
in the integrity of many individual members of the B.U.F.
but I believe Mosley to be against the true spirit of the
corporate state. I believe him to care mainly for his own
fundamental
Glory and to be definitely AGAINST the fascist toward
economic and social justice.

EZRA POUND

HARPER ANDROWELL

THE NEW YORKER, ALL THE WORLD, THE HUMANITY, WOULD BE BORN OUT OF THE NEW WORLD, BECAUSE OF THE NEW YORKER.

The part of the speech insufficiently emphasised in the
English Press ( when reported at all ) followed the DUCE'S
qualification of the crash of five years ago as " THE END
of a period of contemporary history , the end of the period
that may be called liberalist-capitalist economy. " He continued :

" Those who are always ready to look toward the past, have spoken of crisis. It was not a crisis in the traditional and historical sense of the word , it was the passing of of one phase of civilization over into another. NO LONGER the economy that puts the accent on individual profit, but the economics concerned for the collective interest. Faced with this declared and irrevocable decline, two solutions can give the necessary discipline to the productive phenomenon.

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The first would consist in statalizing the WHOLE economy of the
nation. We reject this solution, because, among other reasons,
we have no intention of multiplying the already imposing
number of state employes by ten. The other solution, is
the
and development
solution imposed by the logic of events. It is the
corporative solution, that is the solution by AUTEURS AUTORISÉES
of production entrusted to the producers.

When I say producers
I do NOT mean merely industrials and employers, I mean also
the workmen.

Fa scism establishes the true and profound EQUALITY
of *each* all men in the face of labour and in the face of
the Nation. The difference is solely in the scale and fulness
of individual RESPONSABILITIES.

Speaking to the crowd in brave and populous Bari. I
said the objective of the Regime in economics is the REALIZATION
of a higher social justice for the WHOLE people of Italy.
Such declaration, such solemn pledge I reaffirm before you and
that pledge shall be kept to the last jot.

What does it mean : this higher social
justice ?

It means " lavoro garantito "

( note/ work guaranteed. This can not
be translated as too much work. It mean " no man
is to worry about getting a job. " The division of
work ? The phrase must be considered in context
with all the past decennio. distribution of work ,
turns of work etc. Also with the Italian proposals

for 40 hour week. It does not commit Italy
to the mania of reemployment, which affects
even half baked Gesellites. The Duce has already
said " Production is performed by machines n but
consumption is still performed by human beings ).

It means guaranteed work, adequate pay, a house fit to look
at ( decorosa. Months ago he said large and clean ). It means
the possibility of unceasing evolution and improvement. ( reflexive
of the verb, to evolve and improve ( ourselves ) )

That's NOT enough. It means that the workmen, the
labourers should enter ever more intimately into knowledge of
the productive process, and participate in the necessary
discipline of it.

The mass of workers since 1929 has drawn nearer the
Fascist Revolution. What attitude could they take ? Perhaps hostility
or reserve ? But how could they be hostile to a movement that
gathered in the best of the Italian people, and exalts its
inexhausted passion for greatness ? Or perhaps it was an
attitude of indifference ? But the indifferent have never made,
never WILL make, history.

( Duce ! Duce ! up to here I have
the cheering. The speech came over the radio,
'Ve word, pause to let the meaning come clear
loud speakers )

There was only one other attitude and
the masses have taken it, and made it real :
**adhesion, clear,**
to the spirit and the takt
of the Fascist Revolution.

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If the past century was the century of the power of capital, this, the XXth, is the century of the power, of the glory of modern labour. I tell you science has multiplied the possibilities of abundance (ricchezza, riches) science controlled and loaded on by the will of the State, ought to the other problem, the PROBLEM of the DISTRIBUTION of riches, in such a way that we shall, no longer see the ALLODIAL, ALLODAM paradox at once illogical and savage of grinding poverty (miseria) amid plenty. For this creative action we need all energies and all wills.

For this creative action which has carried Italy into the foreguard of ALM the world, it is still necessary from the international point of view, that Italy shall be left tranquil.

The two things hang together, AND FOR THAT REASON I will make a brief survey of the horizon.

The rest of the speech was generally reported or summarized.

It was a peace speech and not a war speech. It was a peace speech as distinguished absolutely and utterly from a peace speech as pacifist speech. Pacifism in our time being a form of l'aliénage and insincerity, exemplified at its worst by the Peace Endowment, which howls about good will refuses to investigate the economic rottenness behind blood.