Why did Mussolini survive the Matteotti Crisis? (2 h 52 min, 31 mai 1924 ans – 23 h 26 min, 10 juill. 1924 ans)

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Ras:
-Wanted to set up a Fascist dictatorship, smash the Liberal state

Elite:
-Not entirely happy with Mussolini, but thought he'd been doing a good job
-Likes Mussolini more than alternatives

King:
-Unwilling to act, thinking it safer to keep Mussolini in office and that he'd leant his lesson.
- 'I am not a judge. I should not be told such things.'
- 'I am blind and deaf; my eyes and ears are the Senate ant the Chamber of Deputies.

Church
-Mussolini had saved Italy from Socialism.
-Cardinal Gaspari: 'The overthrow od Mussolini could plunge the country into fire and blood.'

Opposition leaders
-Turati: 'Everyone feels that something ought to be done, but no positive descision has been reached.'
-Giolitti: 'Mussolini has all the luck; the opposition was always very troublesome to me, but with him it just walks out and leaves the field free.'

Army
-Would obey the King.

Moderate Deputies
-Now Mussolini was weak, believed they'd be able to control him.

Parliament
-Senate vote of confidence 225 v 21. Most opposition MPs left Chamber; large Fascist majority remained.

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