“A mean frown cut across the brow of Mussolini when some one called the Fascisti movement reactionary. ‘That’s idiotic,’ the premier said. ‘Had I been reactionary, I should have established a dictatorship. I could easily have done so. Where is there a reactionary movement which reconvenes the Chamber and asks parliament to endorse the administration of affairs in the country?”
The Charlotte News, November 11, 1922, page 9