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

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- 5 - in Mussolini. Yes, in some places the public orga- ne were already weeks before the march on Rome under the will of the fascist leadership. In Ferrara, for example, the Prefect had to submit himself to the wishes of the Fascists, and in other places the abbeys led by Balbo won the militia. The fear paralyzed every decision on the passing act in the Cabinet Facta, the last Prime Minister of Mussolini. When the intrigues of the unmothalic government of Facta became more and more unbearable, the measure was full, there was no hesitation nehri The decision had to fall in the autumn of 1922, because if Facta managed to lay down itself through the winter, then the Marxists would have been able to unite themselves with the centre and perhaps also with the nationalists, who also feared the fascists, to a + sufficiently strong front.Facta hoped for that. Mussolini broke this possibility, he called us to the preparatory congress in Naples and let the opponents glauben, it is a harmless gathering:i future of the Pertei. This 24 October brought the decision, which had been prepared in a consultation in Milan on 16 October. Naples was overcrowded with fascists, all of them had come to see the Duce wa again before the march to Rome. "To Rome, after Ron" that was the single call of the thousands of "A Roma" gathered in and before the San Carlo Theatre, the cry of the hundreds-thousands, shouted in measure constantly, rolled through all of Naples. Werdens was Mussolini's masterpiece, making a revolution into wowd, into which neither the army nor the king were drawn. "One makes a revolution not against the army, but with the army," said this revolutionary with the clock in his hand, so on time everything worked out: he did not have the army against himself, but he also did not use it for himself! This wise attitude Mussolini and the fact that he made clear for the dynasty