The Fascisti of Bologna were to hold their annual Congress. Benito, Premier of all Italy, commissioned one Deputy Arpinati to salute the Bologna Fascisti for him.
In a letter to Signer Arpinati, Benito excoriated the Opposition and told his proxy to speak "clear and loud." The instructions were not simple:
In these days we are assisting at a kind of babel, a confusion of tongues, the whole hullabaloo being dominated by that long word "normalization," whose consistent ambiguity I have already clearly denounced. According to the Opposition we should become good Liberals and...