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Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914 - August 1923)

Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)
Translated by Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino (1870 - 1934)

Benito Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party. He grew up as a violent bully, and the characteristics developed in childhood aided his upward career and later rule in Italy. He was also an excellent orator, and this was one of the qualities that helped him rise to power.

This project contains over 60 of his earlier speeches, covering the years 1914-1923: from soon after his expulsion from the Socialist Party for supporting WWI, to his becoming Prime Minister yet still submitting outwardly to democratic rule. (He seized power, threw off the democratic yoke, and became dictator in 1925-1927.) - Summary by TriciaG

Genre(s): Literary Collections, Political Science

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction. A Note on Italian Fascismo. Manifesto	Availle	00:27:52
Play 01	Part I: Mussolini the ''Socialist''. 25th November 1914	Craig Campbell	00:09:27
Play 02	Part II: Mussolini the ''Man of the War''. 13th December 1914 ''For the Liberty of Humanity and the Future of Italy''	Craig Campbell	00:22:15
Play 03	25th January 1915 ''Either War or the End of Italy's Name as a Great Power''	schrm	00:17:25
Play 04	1st December 1917 ''To the Complete Vanquishing of the Huns''	Adam Bielka	00:08:48
Play 05	24th February 1918 ''No Turning Back!''	Adam Bielka	00:20:38
Play 06	24th May 1918 ''The Fatal Victory''	Adam Bielka	00:24:59
Play 07	8th April 1918 ''In Honour of the American People''	Adam Bielka	00:04:58
Play 08	20th October 1918 ''The League of Nations''	Adam Bielka	00:10:34
Play 09	11th November 1918 ''In Celebration of Victory''	Adam Bielka	00:06:27
Play 10	Part III: Mussolini the ''Fascista Friend of the People'' 20th March 1919 ''Workmen's Rights After the War''	Phantom647	00:07:30
Play 11	5th February 1920 ''Sacrifice, Work, and Production''	Matt Stevens	00:07:57
Play 12	24th May 1920 ''We Are Not Against Labour, but Against the Socialist Party, in as far as it Remains Anti-Italian''	Paul Fleischman	00:08:29
Play 13	4th April 1921 ''Fascismo's Interests for the Working Classes''	KevinS	00:09:36
Play 14	6th December 1922 ''My Father Was a Blacksmith, and I Have Worked with Him; He Bent Iron, but I have the Harder Task of Bending Souls''	Matt Stevens	00:06:22
Play 15	6th January 1923 ''Labour to Take the First Place in New Italy''	KevinS	00:04:06
Play 16	Part IV: Mussolini the ''Fascista'' 23rd March 1919 - The Three Declarations at the First Fascista Meeting	Paul Fleischman	00:11:44
Play 17	22nd July 1919 Outline of the Aims and Programme of Fascismo	Matt Stevens	00:21:14
Play 18	9th October 1919 Fascismo and the Rights of Victory	Devlinianism	00:11:13
Play 19	20th September 1920 ''The Tasks of Fascismo''	Bloater51	00:28:54
Play 20	6th February 1921 ''Fascismo and the Problems of Foreign Policy''	Bloater51	00:27:52
Play 21	3rd April 1921 ''How Fascismo was Created''	Bloater51	00:19:21
Play 22	20th September 1922 The Italy We Want Within, and Her Foreign Relations	Bloater51	00:28:24
Play 23	25th September 1922 ''The Piave and Vittorio Veneto Mark the Beginning of New Italy''	KevinS	00:05:42
Play 24	6th October 1922 ''The Fascista Dawning of New Italy''	Matt Stevens	00:19:43
Play 25	26th October 1922 ''The Moment Has Arrived When the Arrow Must Leave the Bow or the Cord Will Break''	Matt Stevens	00:18:42
Play 26	Part V: Mussolini the ''Fascista Member of Parliament'' 21st June 1921 Fascismo and the New Provinces	Matt Stevens	00:10:07
Play 27	21st June 1921 The Question of Montenegro's Independence	KevinS	00:06:04
Play 28	21st June 1921 D'Annunzio and Fiume	KevinS	00:02:43
Play 29	21st June 1921 Italy, Sionism, and the English Mandate in Palestine	KevinS	00:04:22
Play 30	21st June 1921 The Attitude of Fascismo towards Communism and Socialism	KevinS	00:08:32
Play 31	21st June 1921 The Attitude of Fascismo towards the Popular Party. The Vatican and Social Democracy	KevinS	00:05:48
Play 32	Part VI: Mussolini the ''Fascista Prime Minister'' 16th November 1922 A New Cromwell in the Parliament	Paul Fleischman	00:06:56
Play 33	16th November 1922 The Foreign Policy of the Fascista Government	Matt Stevens	00:09:40
Play 34	16th November 1922 The Policy of Fascismo for Italy: Economy, Work and Discipline	schrm	00:08:44
Play 35	27th November 1922 ''Conscientious General Diagnosis of the Conditions of the Country and Its Foreign Policy''	Matt Stevens	00:15:57
Play 36	12th December 1922 ''I Remain the Head of Fascismo, Although the Head of the Italian Government''	KevinS	00:02:29
Play 37	2nd January 1923 ''Our Task in History is to make a United State of the Italian Nation''	KevinS	00:04:33
Play 38	15th January 1923 The Advance in the Ruhr District	Matt Stevens	00:07:41
Play 39	19th January 1923 The Government of Speed	KevinS	00:02:36
Play 40	23rd January 1923 The March of Events on the Ruhr. The Position of Italy	Matt Stevens	00:08:17
Play 41	1st February 1923 The Ruhr, the Conference of Lausanne, and the Port of Memel	schrm	00:05:50
Play 42	6th February 1923 Ratification of the Washington Treaty of Naval Disarmament	KevinS	00:02:40
Play 43	6th February 1923 Message from the Hon. Mussolini to the Italians in America upon the Occasion of the Signing of the Convention for the Laying of Cables between Italy and the American Continent	KevinS	00:02:45
Play 44	8th February 1923 For the Carrying Out of the Treaty of Rapallo	schrm	00:09:03
Play 45	10th February 1923 The Agreements of Santa Margherita. Italy and Yugoslavia	Matt Stevens	00:13:53
Play 46	16th February 1923 Questions of Foreign Policy before the Senate. The Ruhr; Fiume; Zara and Dalmatia	Matt Stevens	00:12:31
Play 47	2nd March 1923 Review of European Politics in their Relation with Italy	Matt Stevens	00:13:40
Play 48	6th March 1923 Italo-Yugoslav Conference for the Commercial Treaty	Adam Bielka	00:02:00
Play 49	7th March 1923 ''History Tells Us that Strict Finance has brought Nations to Security''	Adam Bielka	00:04:37
Play 50	18th March 1923 ''It Is Not the Economic System of Europe Alone that We Have to Restore to Its Full Efficiency''	Adam Bielka	00:05:35
Play 51	29th March 1923 ''Only Those Who Profited by the War Grumbled and Still Grumble, Cursed and Still Curse at the War''	KevinS	00:02:10
Play 52	30th March 1923 ''Patriotism Is Not Formed by Mere Words''	KevinS	00:02:31
Play 53	7th April 1923 Questions of Foreign Policy before the Cabinet	Matt Stevens	00:10:50
Play 54	2nd June 1923 ''Mine Is Not a Government which Deceives the People''	schrm	00:04:42
Play 55	2nd June 1923 ''In Time Past as in Time Present, Woman Had Always a Preponderant Influence in Shaping the Destinies of Humanity''	Michele Fry	00:07:42
Play 56	3rd June 1923 ''So long as these students and these universities exist, the Nation cannot Perish and become a Slave, because Universities smash Fetters without allowing the Forging of New Ones''	schrm	00:09:15
Play 57	8th June 1923 Italy's Foreign Policy regarding German Reparations, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Russia, Poland and other Countries	KevinS	00:26:02
Play 58	8th June 1923 ''The Internal Policy''	Shreya Sethi	00:34:04
Play 59	10th June 1923 ''As Sardinia has been Great in War, so likewise will she be Great in Peace''	ToddHW	00:05:25
Play 60	12th June 1923 ''Men Pass Away, Maybe Governments too, but Italy Lives and Will Never Die''	ToddHW	00:05:04
Play 61	13th June 1923 ''Fascismo will bring a Complete Regeneration to Your Land''	ToddHW	00:02:49
Play 62	19th June 1923 ''As we have Regained the Mastery of the Air, we do not want the Sea to Imprison Us''	ToddHW	00:04:51
Play 63	19th June 1923 ''I Promise You--and God is my Witness--that I shall continue now and always to be a humble servant of our adored Italy''	ToddHW	00:02:41
Play 64	25th June 1923 ''The Victory of the Piave was the Deciding Factor of the War''	ToddHW	00:08:42
Play 65	28th June 1923 The Relations between Italy and the United States	ToddHW	00:16:36
Play 66	2nd July 1923 ''The Greatness of the Country will be Achieved by the New Generations''	KevinS	00:03:43
Play 67	3rd July 1923 The Situation on the Ruhr and Other Questions of Foreign Policy	KevinS	00:04:19
Play 68	16th July 1923 The Electoral Reform Bill	KevinS	00:33:01
Play 69	29th August 1923 The Massacre of the Italian Delegation for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian Frontier	KevinS	00:03:55

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