ABSTRACT
A Defense Group, which embraced every party from anarchists to republicans, had been established and had exerted enough pressure on the carabinieri to force the arrest of a whole squadra of Fascists. On August 19, however, the central committee of the Fasci refused to accept Mussolini's resignation and he agreed to return to the executive committee's meetings. A Defense Group, which embraced every party from anarchists to republicans, had been established and had exerted enough pressure on the carabinieri to force the arrest of a whole squadra of Fascists. Indeed the Fascists were hunted down in the fields; some were killed with farm implements and some were tortured. The industrialists and the landowners had invested substantial amounts of money in Fascism, and not for the purpose of becoming part of a team with the Socialists.
