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

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- 7 cabinets. Such a proposal was no longer considered for Mussolini, that was no solution! Whoever wanted to create new changes from the ground up - and that was the only thing Mussolini had to do, could only do so in a form that finally and completely eliminated the existing system of parliamentary cow trade. At that time I saw many Italians and so many fascists who had agreed with: such a partial solution, in the opinion that this was all that could be achieved: It was quite different with Mussolini and his closest collaborators. It was now the task of the Black Shirt to spread the understanding of the t o t a l e solution in the people. This organization, which grew out of the people, could do so: each one had only one task, to interpret the will of the supreme leader to the last people and to use everything for the realization. So depressed and headless the mood in the besieged main city was, so funny, so confident it went to in the three general camps,' especially in Tivoli, where the wild boys from the Abruzzo were united with the rest of the crowds from the south, I also came with the Sicilians. Where Jugand is there is joy: Everywhere there was glad L camp life, singing and music, dominated Neapolitan folk songs. There was a lot of smoking,wAlkohol was not. Day and night the "Giovinezza", the fighting song of the fascists, sounded through the camp. "Youth was the password of these fighting men and "youth" became the password for the entire fascist movement! The improbable rumors occurred every hour to make room for newer and more impossible ones. Soon it was said that the king had mobilized the army, and soon it was again said that Mussolini was already