In a comment on the Benjamin Franklin piece I posted last week, Al Rosen pointed out that I had given the Great Depression credit for making Mussolini Prime minister of Italy in 1922!
Rather than resorting to explanations involving worm holes and singularities reversing the direction of the arrow of time, I will reveal the truth. My fingers went faster than my brain.
Al’s truth is much more interesting than my fiction. In Italy, the collapse of the economy after World War I left 2 million unemployed and 50% inflation between 1918 and 1920. This led to food riots in 1920, the occupation of the factories by 500,000 workers in September 1920, and the March on Rome by fascist squadristi in October 1922, making 39 year old (former Socialist) newspaper editor, Benito Mussolini Italy’s youngest Prime Minister.
JR
