ABSTRACT
Fascism's strong-arm man, Roberto Farinacci, was appointed secretary of the party on February 12. This former railway clerk turned leader of the squadre of Cremona had in a few months become a lawyer. In 1925 that Mussolini suffered his first serious attack of gastric ulcer. For almost two months he was compelled to curtail his activities. Rachele wanted to join him in Rome, but this was prevented by the party hierarchy, lest public opinion be alarmed. In the beginning of 1926 Fascism was sternly structuring a country that submitted, that adjusted itself to the system in the belief that Mussolini genuinely sought greatness for Italy. In 1926 January 31, Loss of Italian citizenship was sanctioned for opponents of Fascism. The government was given the right to legislate as it chose. Anti-French outbreaks of violence increased, the more so as Italy was playing the English game.
