STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2491, sig. 109-12/138

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N - 3 - pendant owned, especially Parma was one of the firmest red boll-works, as was Ferrara. Breaking these red bases was a major task whose solution led to the march on Rome: this was the task of the energetic, courageous and youthful Italo Balbo, our Balbo who, as air marshal and governor-general of Lybién, was always an upright friend of the National Socialist Germany.For this determined and energetic action, Balbo was the right man. "In the complete conquest of the state there is no bourgeois hypocrisy and no sentimentality" - - "The energy solutions are always the cheapest and the most accomplished.Tat is always the best proof" -- - EimsolcheGesinnung war faschis- isch, it completely corresponded to the will of the Duce. After the March of 63.00o on Ferrara and the 20.00o on Bologna in July' 1922, Italo Balbo Ancona, then Ravenna, occupied both cities in a cutting battle. In August 1922 he won the probably most difficult battle in the preparation of the march on Rome, i.e. the victory over the Red InfP a r m a. In these fights there were many dead and wounded on both sides, in these battles the center stood again with the weapon in hand on the side of the Red against Italo Balbo and his faithful. The indignation and anger had risen so that the whole personality of an Italo balbo needed to sometimes maintain the disciplin in his own ranks. Italo Balbo was one of the Quadrunviri, i.e. that four-man colëegiums (the others were De Bono, De Vecchi and the young idealist Michele Bianchi), who, after the famous Neapler Con-gresse, took over all power on 24 Oct. 1922, prepared the march to Rome and invaded the liberated Rome at the tip of the legions. The General Command over the entire militia shared Italo Balbo