Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Today -100: November 1, 1922: Of frock coats and fascists


100,000 Fascists march through Rome. Mussolini and the other new ministers take the oath to the king, the Constitution and the laws. After that lie, the king hugs the duce.

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Mussolini’s first move is to threaten to fire any civil servant not at his desk by 8 a.m. every day. Evidently bureaucrats operate a “two-hat system,” having one hat that they wear outside, and one permanently left on a hook in the office to fool people into thinking they’re actually in the building somewhere when they can’t be found.

Mussolini says his internal policy will be “Discipline, economy, sacrifice” and “iron rule.” Doesn’t that sound like fun? You can see why he’s so popular. He complains about “lawlessness” in Italy, which is a bit fucking rich.

The US may join the World Court, even though it was set up by the despised League of Nations. 

The IRA rebels demand that newspapers refer to them as Republicans rather than Irregulars and not put quote marks around their military titles. There will be a £1 fine for each offense.

Turkey sentences the signers of the post-Great War Sèvres Treaty to death, as well as members of the Grand Vizier Damat Ferid Pasha’s cabinet. Several of those, including Ferid Pasha, have fled to Switzerland.

Ruth Schermerhorn  – which sounds like a character in a Preston Sturges movie – took out an ad in a Chicago newspaper (I think she lives in Iowa) looking for a prospective husband willing to pay her $5,000 she needs for medical treatment for nerve damage from having been shot by her first husband. A bank employee has agreed to the contract. Ain’t love grand.

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