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Mussolini Chokes the Press
Salvemini, Gaetano | January 12, 1927 issue

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Freedom of the press was guaranteed in Italy by the constitution of 1848. However, on July 15, 1923, dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy passed a decree under which the prefect of a province may wane a newspaper to change its attitude. The paper says that by means of false or tendentious news may hamper the diplomatic action of the Italian government in its foreign relations, or damage the national credit at home or abroad, or arouse baseless alarm among the people, or incite to any breach of the peace. If the paper is warned twice in one year the prefect may forbid the editor to continue in office, even if there has never been a conviction against him and may refuse to authorize any new editor.

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PRESS & politics; MUSSOLINI, Benito, 1883-1945; DICTATORS; FREEDOM of information; EDITORS; CIVIL rights; ITALY
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