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Primary Sources

(1) Benito Mussolini, speech (1929)

In the creation of a new State which is authoritarian but not absolutist, hierarchical and organic - namely, open to the people in all its classes, categories and interests - lies the great revolutionary originality of Fascism, and a teaching perhaps for the whole modern world oscillating between the authority of the State and that of the individual, between the State and the anti-State.

Like all other revolutions, the Fascist revolution has had a dramatic development but this in itself would not suffice to distinguish it. The reign of terror is not a revolution: it is only a necessary instrument in a determined phase of the revolution.

(2) Anita Leslie, Clare Sheridan (1976)

That night he (Benito Mussolini) sent a messenger for her (Clare Sheridan) at l0 o'clock.

Memy, her sister-in-law, urged caution. "You must not play about with that man."

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