GIOVINEZZA Magazine Fascist League North America 1928 Italian Mussolini Il Duce

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GIOVINEZZA Magazine Fascist League North America 1928 Italian Mussolini Il Duce:
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Giovinezza: Bollettino Uffficiale Quindicinale della Lega Fascista del Nord America (Youth: Official Quarterly Magazine of the Fascist League of North America)
April 1, 1928 edition; 9th Annual
Official Magazine of the American Fascist Party, features articles about Mussolini el Duce and the American chapters of this organization. This organization, I understand was only in existence in America during the 1920s.
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE!
Complete magazine with original mailing wrapper (sent to a Francesco Trapani in Boston).
32 pages.
From Wikipedia:

TheFascist League of North America(FLNA) was an umbrella group forfascistItalian-Americanorganizations founded in 1924. With the rise of fascism in Italy, grassrootsFasciclubs started to form inItalian-Americancommunities in the United States. Despite hostility from Italian diplomatic officialdom, who saw such a move as counterproductive, nearly forty such groups had been organized by mid-1923.[1]In 1924, the groups came together under the umbrella of the FLNA.

During the early years ofBenito Mussolini\'s rule, when the fascist dictatorship had not yet been consolidated and there were still outstanding diplomatic questions between the U.S. and Italy regarding war debts and emigration, the ItalianNational Fascist Partydid not seek an official connection with the American fascists. But by the mid-to late 1920s, the party decided to extend its suzerainty over the foreign fascist groups through theFasci Italiani all\'Estero, or Fascists Abroad organization.Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revelwas sent to the US to organize the Fasci into the FLNA.[2]

Despite the continuing hostility of the Italian diplomatic corps, the FLNA had the support of fascist ideologues on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States it could count in particular on the support of two Italian-American newspapers, Domenico Trombetta\'sIl Grido della Stirpein New York and Francesco Macaluso\'sGiovinezzain Boston.[3]TheUnited States Department of Statewas ambivalent, initially viewing the FLNA as a group committed to law and order andanti-communism, and seeing no reason to ask for its disestablishment despite the Italian ambassador\'s offer to do so.[4]

The presence of the FLNA provoked a counter-response by Italian-Americans of liberal, socialist, communist and anarchist persuasion, and anAnti-Fascist Alliance of North Americawas formed as early as 1923 and continued into the 1930s.[5]Clashes between pro- and anti-fascist Italian-Americans became more common, ending in at least a dozen fatalities evenly divided between the two factions.[6]

The final death knell was asensationalisticarticle published in November 1929, byHarper\'s Magazine, \"Mussolini\'s American empire\"[7]byMarcus Duffieldclaiming the FLNA was part of Mussolini\'s plot to control the Italian-American community in the U.S. and raise \"soldiers for Fascism\". The Italian government concluded that the American Fasci did Italy more harm than good. Mussolini instructed Ambassador de Martino to dissolve the FLNA, using the public outcry as a pretext.[8]