7h 55min, dec 1, 1924 y - Mussolini's Hand is Forced

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Leading Fascists, exasperated by the uncertainty created by the affair, of Liberal discontent, and frustrated by the government's lack of radicalism, presented Mussolini with an ultimatum. If he did not end the Matteotti affair immediately and move descisively towards the establishment if a dictatorship, they would withdraw their support.

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