FASCIST TEN RULES

Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 7

FASCIST TEN RULES

“There is no doubt of the Fascists’ belief in direct actioq,” writes Mary Kelsey, in the ‘ Nation,’ of New York. “The following rules of the Fascist militiamen clearly express their creed “The Ten Commandments of the militiamen,: “ 1, Remember that the Fascist must not believe in perpetual peace. “2. Tho days of. prison .are always merited. “3. The mother , country . is served even if the sentinel only guards a can of gasolene. ‘ “4. A companion in arms must bo a brother. ,Pirst, because; he * is; Jiving with you; second, because Id thinks as yon think. “5. Tho rifle and the cartridge pouch have been given you not to ho kept greased alone,' hut to he used iu time of war. “0. Never-say that the Government makes you pay, becar.se. you are part of the Government, and you wear the uniform it gives you.. “7, Discijdine is necessary. Without it there would be no army—-only confusion and defeat. “8. Afussolini is always right. “9. Disobedience is not pardonable in a Fascist. ■ “10. One thing must be held above all; The life of the Ducc. • ■ “All tho power," the writer adds, “of-the present Italian .Government is being devoted to impressing these rules on the youth of Italy. Tho young people are being trained —and in large measure they'Tend themselves with ardour to it—to dedicate' their lives to the furthering of the Fascist ideal. “ The troops of little Black Shirts from eight 1 to’ fourteen years of. ago which one meets inarching smartly through the streets, and the many young men, many of them of a fine aid generous type,- that one sees wearing tho Fascist emblem,, attest - the ddvotion that it inspires among young people.”