Berne Convention, powers of, respecting international traffic, 270 Bernhardi, von, 26 Bernstein, Edward, and Versailles Treaty, 99 Bersagliere Regt., 11th, Mussolini joins, xvi Bessarabia, 20 Bezzi, Ergisto, 18, 88 Bianchi, Michele, xiii Bismarck, 9 Bissolati, Leonida, 158 Black Shirts, Nationalists and, 148; revolution of, a force for progress, 208 Bologna: speech of 24th May 1918 at, 37; speech of 3rd April 1921 at, 134; University of, and Montenegrin independence, 191; Fascista occupation of, 308 Bolshevism: Mussolini saves Italy from, xiv; textile workers’ strike, 68; failure of, in Italy, 73, 167; Mussolini’s fight against, 87, 101; Florence under, 103; Bolshevist element in Italian Socialism, 116; in Trieste, 117, 121; of Russia, 129, 147; the Bolshevist State and the Liberal State, 139; Fascismo and, 166, 179; the Italian Bolshevist world, 178; Germany’s resistance to influence of, 290; Italian losses in crushing, 324; freedom of the Press and, 355 Bolzano, xiii, 163–4; 173, 185, 187, 308 Bonacini, Lieut. Mario, murder of, 363 Bono, General Cesare de, xii, xiii, 309, 343 Bordiga, General, 105 Bourbons, 75, 351 Bourgeoisie, Fascismo and the, 165; Risorgimento and, 50 Breitemburg, Count, 186 Brenner, the: Battisti and, 74; Bezzi and, 88; Italy in possession of, 107; as bulwark against Germany, 110; Paduan valley and, 125; as Italy’s northern boundary, 136; defence of, 184; Mussolini’s declaration to German deputies respecting, 188; Versailles Treaty and, 293 Brest-Litowsk, Treaty of, 44 Brofferio, Angelo, 351–2 Brussels Conference, 1923, 214 Bucharest, Peace of, 44 Budapest, Danube Confederation and, 124; peace of justice, and occupation of, 149, 172 Budget, Italian State, 215, 272–3; Communal, 358 Bulgaria, 10, 125, 213; reparations, 295, 299; _coup d’état_ in, 345 Buozzi, 219 Burian, 20 Cables, conventions relative to, xviii Cagliari, speech of 12th June 1923 at, 323 Canada, Commercial Treaty with, 214 Cannæ, 288 Capitulations, the, 241, 266 Caporetto, speech after, 30; causes of disaster of, 32; anti-war demonstrations after, 34; national crisis following, 43; German calculations after, 45; Rapallo and, 126; Pact of Rome and, 126; Fascismo and, 135; discipline of war and, 350 Carabineers, xvii, 359 Caradonna, 310 Carducci, 37 Carli, 99 Carso, 28; Italian sentiment for the, 35; Corridoni’s death, 48; insurrection against Trieste on, 118; commemoration ceremony, 120 Carthage, 177 Castelrosso, 280, 302 Castua, 278 Catholicism, Mussolini on, xii Cattaneo, 53 Cavallotti, 351 Cavazzoni, 252 Caviglia, General, 129 Cavour, Camille, 311; Crimean expedition and, 351 Ceccherini, Maj.-General, xii, 310 Central America, cable to, xviii Central Empires, 9; war desired by, 27, 72 Cervantes, 114