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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Slippery slope nightmares of history
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 04:58:19 EDT
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> > > Hitler and Mussolini came to power by election, not by coup.  While
> > > Hitler had no good intentions, I suspect Mussolini may have, but evil
> > > tends to build on its self.
> > >
> > >				Clayton Cramer
> >
> >            (In Italy) The Fascists managed to win only 35 out of 535
> > seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the election of 1921.  Mussolini
> > seized power the following year by mobilizing his Fascist militias in 
> > his "March on Rome", openly challenging the authority of the weak 
> > coalition government and threatening to lay siege to the capital in the 
> > name of restoring social order.  The King caved in and asked Mussolini 
> > to form a government, rather than risk civil war.
> > 
> Wrong again, Baba.  The Fascists, it is true, held only 35 seats --- but
> they had more seats than any other party!
>
>						Clayton Cramer

For someone so fond of admonishing people to read, you sure do fabricate
an awful lot of information.  In the election in question, the Socialists
won 123 seats, and the Populists 108.

> The "March on Rome" was a celebration of the Fascist victory.  

Well, they certainly took their time about it.  Between the elections of
May 1921 and the "celebration" of October 1922, Italy had three prime
ministers: Giolitti, Bonomi, and Facta.

						Baba