
FIVE TO 30 YEAR TERMS FOR "INJURING" ITALY
Unfriendly Newspapers Suppressed as Well as Organizations Against Present Regime
The cabinet, meeting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini, approved measures that make plots against the government and the state, and against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and of members of the royal family, punishable by death, and that set imprisonment of five to more than 30 years for any effort to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda. The measures also annul passports allowing Italians to leave the country, revoke the licenses of newspapers antagonistic to the regime, dissolve clubs suspected of being anti-Fascist, and entrust the judgment of such crimes to special courts.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, November 5. - Sweeping measures to protect the Fascist regime from the activities of its enemies were approved today by the cabinet, sitting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini.
The ministers adopted a provision making plots against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and members of the royal family and plots against the government and state punishable by death.
They also approved penalizing by imprisonment, varying from five to more than 30 years, any effort by an Italian or foreigner to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda.
Membership in any organization against Fascism also will be punishable by heavy imprisonment. Nearly a dozen specific acts relating to direct or indirect activities against the regime will render the offenders liable to jail terms and perpetual interdiction from public office.
Italians Cannot Leave.
All passports allowing Italians to leave the country are annulled, with heavy penalties for attempted evasion. Other provisions are: Revocation for an indeterminate period of the licenses of all newspapers antagonistic to the regime. Dissolution of all clubs and associations suspected of being anti-Fascist. Institution of police dead lines for persons suspected of anti-Fascism. Inauguration of a service of special political investigation at the headquarters of every legion of the Fascist militia.
Judgment of the aforementioned crimes is intrusted to special courts consisting of representatives of the army, navy, aeronautical corps and the Fascist militia. The number of the courts and the control of them will be in the hands of the minister of war. The law goes into effect immediately, and lasts for five years.
Officialdom Is Guarded.
The cabinet also approved extension of the law on bureaucracy for another four years, thus keeping officialdom absolutely free of anti-Fascist elements. The law will also be amended toward this end.
Among the new crimes and penalties are the following: Conspirators against Fascism, 5 to 15 years: instigators of plots, 15 to 30 years; instigation or support of anti-Fascist activities through the press, 5 to 15 years; formation of illegal societies, 3 to 10 years, and membership in them, 2 to 5 years, with perpetual interdiction from public office. Any sort of anti-Fascist propaganda will be considered equivalent to such membership.
Propagandizing or spreading false' rumors tending to hurt the state abroad, 5 to 15 years, with loss of citizenship and the confiscation of property.
Article 6 says: "The citizens or stranger considered guilty of these offenses may be punished by this law, judged in Italy, whether or not he has already been brought to trial and punished abroad."
The section of the law regarding passports provides for "revision of all passports, with annulment, effective November 9, of all passports already issued, persons now abroad excepted." The retroactive death penalty, which was demanded by the Fascist party for those responsible for previous attempts on Mussolini's life, was not adopted, it is understood, because of the insistence of Minister of Justice Rocco that such action would be at variance with all the nations' legal traditions.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.
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November 5, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Coconino Sun, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, and The Independent.
FIVE TO 30 YEAR TERMS FOR "INJURING" ITALY
Unfriendly Newspapers Suppressed as Well as Organizations Against Present Regime
The cabinet, meeting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini, approved measures that make plots against the government and the state, and against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and of members of the royal family, punishable by death, and that set imprisonment of five to more than 30 years for any effort to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda. The measures also annul passports allowing Italians to leave the country, revoke the licenses of newspapers antagonistic to the regime, dissolve clubs suspected of being anti-Fascist, and entrust the judgment of such crimes to special courts.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, November 5. - Sweeping measures to protect the Fascist regime from the activities of its enemies were approved today by the cabinet, sitting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini.
The ministers adopted a provision making plots against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and members of the royal family and plots against the government and state punishable by death.
They also approved penalizing by imprisonment, varying from five to more than 30 years, any effort by an Italian or foreigner to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda.
Membership in any organization against Fascism also will be punishable by heavy imprisonment. Nearly a dozen specific acts relating to direct or indirect activities against the regime will render the offenders liable to jail terms and perpetual interdiction from public office.
Italians Cannot Leave.
All passports allowing Italians to leave the country are annulled, with heavy penalties for attempted evasion. Other provisions are: Revocation for an indeterminate period of the licenses of all newspapers antagonistic to the regime. Dissolution of all clubs and associations suspected of being anti-Fascist. Institution of police dead lines for persons suspected of anti-Fascism. Inauguration of a service of special political investigation at the headquarters of every legion of the Fascist militia.
Judgment of the aforementioned crimes is intrusted to special courts consisting of representatives of the army, navy, aeronautical corps and the Fascist militia. The number of the courts and the control of them will be in the hands of the minister of war. The law goes into effect immediately, and lasts for five years.
Officialdom Is Guarded.
The cabinet also approved extension of the law on bureaucracy for another four years, thus keeping officialdom absolutely free of anti-Fascist elements. The law will also be amended toward this end.
Among the new crimes and penalties are the following: Conspirators against Fascism, 5 to 15 years: instigators of plots, 15 to 30 years; instigation or support of anti-Fascist activities through the press, 5 to 15 years; formation of illegal societies, 3 to 10 years, and membership in them, 2 to 5 years, with perpetual interdiction from public office. Any sort of anti-Fascist propaganda will be considered equivalent to such membership.
Propagandizing or spreading false' rumors tending to hurt the state abroad, 5 to 15 years, with loss of citizenship and the confiscation of property.
Article 6 says: "The citizens or stranger considered guilty of these offenses may be punished by this law, judged in Italy, whether or not he has already been brought to trial and punished abroad."
The section of the law regarding passports provides for "revision of all passports, with annulment, effective November 9, of all passports already issued, persons now abroad excepted." The retroactive death penalty, which was demanded by the Fascist party for those responsible for previous attempts on Mussolini's life, was not adopted, it is understood, because of the insistence of Minister of Justice Rocco that such action would be at variance with all the nations' legal traditions.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.
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November 5, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Coconino Sun, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, and The Independent.
FIVE TO 30 YEAR TERMS FOR "INJURING" ITALY
Unfriendly Newspapers Suppressed as Well as Organizations Against Present Regime
The cabinet, meeting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini, approved measures that make plots against the government and the state, and against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and of members of the royal family, punishable by death, and that set imprisonment of five to more than 30 years for any effort to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda. The measures also annul passports allowing Italians to leave the country, revoke the licenses of newspapers antagonistic to the regime, dissolve clubs suspected of being anti-Fascist, and entrust the judgment of such crimes to special courts.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, November 5. - Sweeping measures to protect the Fascist regime from the activities of its enemies were approved today by the cabinet, sitting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini.
The ministers adopted a provision making plots against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and members of the royal family and plots against the government and state punishable by death.
They also approved penalizing by imprisonment, varying from five to more than 30 years, any effort by an Italian or foreigner to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda.
Membership in any organization against Fascism also will be punishable by heavy imprisonment. Nearly a dozen specific acts relating to direct or indirect activities against the regime will render the offenders liable to jail terms and perpetual interdiction from public office.
Italians Cannot Leave.
All passports allowing Italians to leave the country are annulled, with heavy penalties for attempted evasion. Other provisions are: Revocation for an indeterminate period of the licenses of all newspapers antagonistic to the regime. Dissolution of all clubs and associations suspected of being anti-Fascist. Institution of police dead lines for persons suspected of anti-Fascism. Inauguration of a service of special political investigation at the headquarters of every legion of the Fascist militia.
Judgment of the aforementioned crimes is intrusted to special courts consisting of representatives of the army, navy, aeronautical corps and the Fascist militia. The number of the courts and the control of them will be in the hands of the minister of war. The law goes into effect immediately, and lasts for five years.
Officialdom Is Guarded.
The cabinet also approved extension of the law on bureaucracy for another four years, thus keeping officialdom absolutely free of anti-Fascist elements. The law will also be amended toward this end.
Among the new crimes and penalties are the following: Conspirators against Fascism, 5 to 15 years: instigators of plots, 15 to 30 years; instigation or support of anti-Fascist activities through the press, 5 to 15 years; formation of illegal societies, 3 to 10 years, and membership in them, 2 to 5 years, with perpetual interdiction from public office. Any sort of anti-Fascist propaganda will be considered equivalent to such membership.
Propagandizing or spreading false' rumors tending to hurt the state abroad, 5 to 15 years, with loss of citizenship and the confiscation of property.
Article 6 says: "The citizens or stranger considered guilty of these offenses may be punished by this law, judged in Italy, whether or not he has already been brought to trial and punished abroad."
The section of the law regarding passports provides for "revision of all passports, with annulment, effective November 9, of all passports already issued, persons now abroad excepted." The retroactive death penalty, which was demanded by the Fascist party for those responsible for previous attempts on Mussolini's life, was not adopted, it is understood, because of the insistence of Minister of Justice Rocco that such action would be at variance with all the nations' legal traditions.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.
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November 5, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Coconino Sun, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, and The Independent.
FIVE TO 30 YEAR TERMS FOR "INJURING" ITALY
Unfriendly Newspapers Suppressed as Well as Organizations Against Present Regime
The cabinet, meeting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini, approved measures that make plots against the government and the state, and against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and of members of the royal family, punishable by death, and that set imprisonment of five to more than 30 years for any effort to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda. The measures also annul passports allowing Italians to leave the country, revoke the licenses of newspapers antagonistic to the regime, dissolve clubs suspected of being anti-Fascist, and entrust the judgment of such crimes to special courts.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, November 5. - Sweeping measures to protect the Fascist regime from the activities of its enemies were approved today by the cabinet, sitting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini.
The ministers adopted a provision making plots against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and members of the royal family and plots against the government and state punishable by death.
They also approved penalizing by imprisonment, varying from five to more than 30 years, any effort by an Italian or foreigner to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda.
Membership in any organization against Fascism also will be punishable by heavy imprisonment. Nearly a dozen specific acts relating to direct or indirect activities against the regime will render the offenders liable to jail terms and perpetual interdiction from public office.
Italians Cannot Leave.
All passports allowing Italians to leave the country are annulled, with heavy penalties for attempted evasion. Other provisions are: Revocation for an indeterminate period of the licenses of all newspapers antagonistic to the regime. Dissolution of all clubs and associations suspected of being anti-Fascist. Institution of police dead lines for persons suspected of anti-Fascism. Inauguration of a service of special political investigation at the headquarters of every legion of the Fascist militia.
Judgment of the aforementioned crimes is intrusted to special courts consisting of representatives of the army, navy, aeronautical corps and the Fascist militia. The number of the courts and the control of them will be in the hands of the minister of war. The law goes into effect immediately, and lasts for five years.
Officialdom Is Guarded.
The cabinet also approved extension of the law on bureaucracy for another four years, thus keeping officialdom absolutely free of anti-Fascist elements. The law will also be amended toward this end.
Among the new crimes and penalties are the following: Conspirators against Fascism, 5 to 15 years: instigators of plots, 15 to 30 years; instigation or support of anti-Fascist activities through the press, 5 to 15 years; formation of illegal societies, 3 to 10 years, and membership in them, 2 to 5 years, with perpetual interdiction from public office. Any sort of anti-Fascist propaganda will be considered equivalent to such membership.
Propagandizing or spreading false' rumors tending to hurt the state abroad, 5 to 15 years, with loss of citizenship and the confiscation of property.
Article 6 says: "The citizens or stranger considered guilty of these offenses may be punished by this law, judged in Italy, whether or not he has already been brought to trial and punished abroad."
The section of the law regarding passports provides for "revision of all passports, with annulment, effective November 9, of all passports already issued, persons now abroad excepted." The retroactive death penalty, which was demanded by the Fascist party for those responsible for previous attempts on Mussolini's life, was not adopted, it is understood, because of the insistence of Minister of Justice Rocco that such action would be at variance with all the nations' legal traditions.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.
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November 5, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Coconino Sun, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, and The Independent.
FIVE TO 30 YEAR TERMS FOR "INJURING" ITALY
Unfriendly Newspapers Suppressed as Well as Organizations Against Present Regime
The cabinet, meeting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini, approved measures that make plots against the government and the state, and against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and of members of the royal family, punishable by death, and that set imprisonment of five to more than 30 years for any effort to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda. The measures also annul passports allowing Italians to leave the country, revoke the licenses of newspapers antagonistic to the regime, dissolve clubs suspected of being anti-Fascist, and entrust the judgment of such crimes to special courts.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, November 5. - Sweeping measures to protect the Fascist regime from the activities of its enemies were approved today by the cabinet, sitting under the presidency of Premier Mussolini.
The ministers adopted a provision making plots against the life, liberty and integrity of the premier and members of the royal family and plots against the government and state punishable by death.
They also approved penalizing by imprisonment, varying from five to more than 30 years, any effort by an Italian or foreigner to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda.
Membership in any organization against Fascism also will be punishable by heavy imprisonment. Nearly a dozen specific acts relating to direct or indirect activities against the regime will render the offenders liable to jail terms and perpetual interdiction from public office.
Italians Cannot Leave.
All passports allowing Italians to leave the country are annulled, with heavy penalties for attempted evasion. Other provisions are: Revocation for an indeterminate period of the licenses of all newspapers antagonistic to the regime. Dissolution of all clubs and associations suspected of being anti-Fascist. Institution of police dead lines for persons suspected of anti-Fascism. Inauguration of a service of special political investigation at the headquarters of every legion of the Fascist militia.
Judgment of the aforementioned crimes is intrusted to special courts consisting of representatives of the army, navy, aeronautical corps and the Fascist militia. The number of the courts and the control of them will be in the hands of the minister of war. The law goes into effect immediately, and lasts for five years.
Officialdom Is Guarded.
The cabinet also approved extension of the law on bureaucracy for another four years, thus keeping officialdom absolutely free of anti-Fascist elements. The law will also be amended toward this end.
Among the new crimes and penalties are the following: Conspirators against Fascism, 5 to 15 years: instigators of plots, 15 to 30 years; instigation or support of anti-Fascist activities through the press, 5 to 15 years; formation of illegal societies, 3 to 10 years, and membership in them, 2 to 5 years, with perpetual interdiction from public office. Any sort of anti-Fascist propaganda will be considered equivalent to such membership.
Propagandizing or spreading false' rumors tending to hurt the state abroad, 5 to 15 years, with loss of citizenship and the confiscation of property.
Article 6 says: "The citizens or stranger considered guilty of these offenses may be punished by this law, judged in Italy, whether or not he has already been brought to trial and punished abroad."
The section of the law regarding passports provides for "revision of all passports, with annulment, effective November 9, of all passports already issued, persons now abroad excepted." The retroactive death penalty, which was demanded by the Fascist party for those responsible for previous attempts on Mussolini's life, was not adopted, it is understood, because of the insistence of Minister of Justice Rocco that such action would be at variance with all the nations' legal traditions.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Evening Star, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
November 4, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.
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November 5, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Coconino Sun, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, and The Independent.