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Show MnssoUnl He Is premier of Italy by appointment appoint-ment of King Victor Emmanual III. But the appointment was made only at the culmination of a bloodless revolution, when Mussolini's Fascists Fas-cists marched upon Rome in October, 1922, and compelled the resignation of the cabinet then in power. The Fascists, though loyal to the throne, were in a position to have overturned over-turned it also if their demands for control of the government had not been granted. The Fascists were organized by Mussolini in 1919 as a militant political party. |