ITALY: The Blackshirts' Revenge

Ever since the day his old schoolmate, Socialist Benito Mussolini, became a Blackshirt, 69-year-old Lawyer Adone Zoli has been one of Italy's most outspoken antiFascists. Last week, with the Duce long gone and Zoli about to win confirmation as Italy's eighth Premier, the Fascists finally got their revenge.

Zoli's problem was to put together a government without the support of the three small parties that have helped keep Christian Democratic Premiers in office since 1953. The only bloc from which he might reasonably hope to win support was the right—the Monarchists and...

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