New Canadian paper pushes Mussolini’s Fascism
Friday, 12 February 2010 00:00
Clippings from the newspapers of February 12, 1929.
Toronto Star. A bi-monthly Canadian edition of a New York paper is to be established to promote the fascist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, as a bulwark against socialism, bolshevism and communism.
Dr. Casare Maccari, editor of Latin World, announced plans for the Canadian edition during a visit in Toronto. The Canadian edition “is intended primarily to spread propaganda for Latin culture among the Latin races, particularly Italians,” the Star reports. “The idea of Fascism as a bulwark against bolshevism organized by Il Duce are to be stressed, particularly in the Canadian edition.”
Mussolini established Italy’s Fascisti as militant nationalists to defeat socialism. His Black Shirts marched on Rome in 1922. With violence and murder, Il Duce established himself as dictator and set out to establish a new Roman Empire. Italy entered the Second World War on the side of Germany and Japan in 1940, one year after Germany launched the war. Italian patriots shot Mussolini and a group of Fascisti in 1945, near the end of the Second World War. Their bodies were hung on public display.
Jersey Lilly
Associated Press, London. Actress Lilly Langtry, the “Jersey Lilly,” is dead from heart disease at Monte Carlo, age 76. Widely considered the most stunning beauty of her time, she was the former mistress of Britain’s Edward VII, when he was still Prince of Wales. On a visit to Toronto in 1895, however, the editor of The Week magazine complained about her portrait “plastered about the city,” and claimed, “I have seen many washerwomen whose faces were far pleasanter to the discerning eye.”
No to 8-hour day
Canadian Press. A delegation from the Alberta branch of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association tells Alberta Premier John Brownlee and his cabinet that it is opposed to legislation that would mandate an eight-hour workday. The manufacturers said that such legislation for industrial labour would result in a shortage of farm labour since workers would move to the cities where working hours would be shorter. “Premier Brownlee stated it was not the intention that the law should be hard and fast.”
No nude women
Lindsay Post. New York Police Commissioner Whalen promises to clamp down on criminals, crime-breeding drinking resorts, and nightclubs and cabarets that feature revues of scantly-clad women. “This also applies to the so-called high-class speakeasy restaurants and cabarets that parade nude women for the edification of their patrons,” Whalen said. He vowed to keep “vicious criminals in jail where they belong, or keep them broke paying for lawyers and bondsmen.”
A big bigamist
Winnipeg Tribune. In Moscow, a “Mr. Schwartz” has been charged with “having abused his position as a member of the Communist Party” by marrying several hundred women during a period of 18 months. More than 150 of his “wives” have agreed to give evidence against him.