- 5 - as during the Fascist regime. The situation of the press in Italy is a typical expression of the present policy of the parties, and of the government in which they cooperate. The present slavery of the conservative journalism reflects exactly the political slavery of the people, prisoners of a minority. 8- NO LIBERTY OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION Still less exists the liberty of political organization because the closed monopoly of legislative and governmental responsibility on which there is no public control, has rendered practically impossible any political activity by anyone who cannot express himself either through the press or through parties which do not collaborate with the communists. 9 - THREAT OF PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP. Besides, and this is more serious, the diffused certainty that the proletarian dictatorship is near to realization with the arrival of the Russian troops in the Adriatic because there will be solidarity of the Anglo-Saxons, even of unwillingly, for the triumph of Russian ideology arriving armed. These doubts have created in the majority of the Italians fear, it is necessary to say, fear of Communism in Italy. Many aim to keep friendly with the Communists being persuade that they are to become the masters of our country. Through this preventive submission of the conservative part of the population towards the communists there have ardsen two consequences: - |