Il Piccolo
The manifesto for the economic International
Il Piccolo of 20 October 1926 carried economic and labour news from Rome and London.
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Il Piccolo
Read published past issues of Il Piccolo, with excerpts, translations and context.
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Il Piccolo
Supervision of the Fascist press
Il Piccolo's front page of 19 October 1926, in the portions read here, carried a Rome report on a Tribuna commentary about the Fascist party statute's rule that federal secretaries must supervise the party press.
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Franco-German negotiations to resume soon
This front page of Il Piccolo for 17 October 1926 followed the aftermath of Locarno in three stories.
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The Celebration of the March on Rome
Trieste's Il Piccolo of 16 October 1926 led with the Fascist party's orders for the fourth anniversary of the March on Rome.
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The New Statute of the P.N.F.
Trieste's Il Piccolo for Friday 15 October 1926 carried a Rome dispatch saying that some provincial Fascist directorates had misread the new P.N.F. statute and resigned, and that party secretary Augusto Turati had reaffirmed a circular ordering them to stay in office until the implementing rules came out; the statute itself would take effect at the end of the year.
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Hon. Mussolini back in Rome
This partial reading of Il Piccolo for 14 October 1926 covers three short wire reports.
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The Minister's Speech
Il Piccolo of Trieste led its 13 October 1926 front page with Finance Minister Count Volpi in Genoa.
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Anticipation for Volpi's statements today
Il Piccolo of Trieste led with Finance Minister Giuseppe Volpi's departure for Genoa, where he was expected to pledge continued deflation, credit the lira's rise (quoted at 115 to the pound in London) to foreign confidence rather than state intervention, and praise the budget; a ministerial circular tightened stockbrokers' reporting of trading volumes.
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Rome the Mediator
Il Piccolo of Trieste led its 9 October 1926 front page with “Roma mediatrice”, an editorial that used King Boris III's eighth jubilee to trace Bulgaria's recovery from defeat, civil strife and its refugee burden.
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The First Session of the Grand Council
Il Piccolo of Trieste reported on 8 October 1926 that the Fascist Grand Council had opened its October session in Rome at 10 p.m. the evening before.
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The consolidation of relations between Italy and Bulgaria
Il Piccolo of 7 October 1926 put Rome's Balkan diplomacy at the top of its page.
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A speech by Mussolini to the people of Perugia
The page was dominated by a long report from Perugia.
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French NCO stabbed at Neustadt
Il Piccolo's page of 5 October 1926 carried a Paris dispatch, drawn from the Petit Parisien, describing how a German civilian in a crowded Neustadt restaurant pressed a drink on Sergeant Audigou of the French 12th Artillery, talked of killing his own wife, and then, without any quarrel, stabbed the sergeant near the heart.
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On the Paths of the New History
Il Piccolo's page of 3 October 1926 opened with an editorial on Italy's place in post-Locarno diplomacy.
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In Roman Political Circles
Il Piccolo's front page of 2 October 1926 viewed Italian diplomacy and domestic policy through the regime's lens.
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Neither Without Nor Against Italy
Il Piccolo's page of 1 October 1926 carried three quite different items.
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The Awarding of Prizes in the Grain Competition
Il Piccolo's page for 30 September 1926 combined Fascist agricultural propaganda, a flashpoint in the occupied Rhineland and a note of anxiety from the stock exchange.
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The lira’s welcome recovery
Il Piccolo’s September 29, 1926 issue reported on government monetary and administrative policy alongside destructive storms.
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Poincaré and Stresemann
Il Piccolo presented Poincaré’s willingness to approach Germany alongside firm demands for reparations, disarmament and that the Imperial Government’s war responsibility not be questioned, followed by favourable French press reactions.
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The government’s firm policy of deflation
A Fascist Party declaration insists that deflation and the lira’s revaluation will continue.
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Measures to put the country’s economy and finances in order, and international speculation’s futile skirmishes
The selected top headings frame domestic economic and financial measures against international speculation, express wishes for a disarmament conference’s success, and report German government approval of the Foreign Minister’s work amid discussion of Franco-German agreements.
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The League Assembly favors convening the disarmament conference
The selected headings cover support in the League Assembly for a disarmament conference, trade agreements credited to the Fascist Government, and Dempsey’s defeat by Tunney.
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The government’s intensive activity in defense of the lira
The selected headlines place the government’s defense of the lira beside Germany’s foreign-policy aims after entry into the League and a further fall in the franc.
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Mussolini discusses security and financial policy
The upper-left band brings financial policy and public security under discussions involving Mussolini, Turati and two ministers.
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Stresemann’s intervention for Danzig succeeds in the League Council
The upper-left heading characterizes Stresemann’s intervention concerning Danzig at the League Council as effective.
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The work at Geneva
Il Piccolo expects Franco-German discussions to move from Geneva to the capitals and reports rumours of another meeting.
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The text of the pact
Il Piccolo prints further clauses of the Italian-Romanian pact, specifying political and diplomatic support, arbitration and a five-year term.
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The Italian–Romanian friendship pact signed at Palazzo Chigi
The Italian–Romanian signing is celebrated through ceremony, while nearby reports describe a proposed fascist jury reform and detailed bread-making restrictions.
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The contents of the pact
The page views cooperation through three different arrangements: a forthcoming Italian–Romanian friendship treaty, newly agreed League Council election rules, and a planned steel cartel.
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Italy’s legitimate demand
The page combines a partisan attack on France’s treatment of Italian anti-fascist exiles, a capital-punishment proposal still under study, and a Locarno ratification report that leaves the League’s internal dispute unresolved.
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The death-penalty bill
Il Piccolo frames the aftermath of the attack through government measures and selected foreign reactions.
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