Italian-Americans

resistance to Fascism, 139–140, 162–163, 200–201

support of Fascism, 5, 27–28, 30–31, 33, 37–39, 43, 44, 50, 65–66, 73–75, 77–79, 81–82, 84–86, 92, 101–102, 132–135, 143, 155, 159, 165–166, 168–169, 177, 182, 199

as a means of strengthening national identity, 5, 27–28, 31–32, 34, 38, 40, 45, 84, 85, 86, 102, 179, 182, 217n1

Italian Chamber of Labor of America, 103, 112–113

Italianità,, 27–28, 99, 130, 153, 156, 179, 183, 206

Johnson Act, 180, 217n38

Johnson Bill (see Immigration Quota Act of 1921)

and employment in Italy, 17

and inflation in Italy, 18

and Mussolini, 24–26

impact on Italian economy and the Italian maritime companies, 13–14

racial prejudice or economic necessity, 8

Khaki Shirts of America, 144–145

King,William H., 9, 43

Ku Klux Klan, 9, 53, 96, 109, 125, 144, 204–205

Kulischioff, Anna, 22

Kruger, H.N., 143

LaGuardia, Fiorello, 109

La Macchia, Raffaele, 80

Lanni, Clement G., 28

Lebensraum,, 180

Leone, Giovanni, xiv

Longo (Lieutenant), 89

Macaluso, Francescopassim, 76

Macaluso’s group (Macaluso, Bottero, Guidi, and Pettinella), 83

manganelli,passim, xi

Martinengo, Achille, 7

Matteotti, Giacomo (murder of), 4, 51, 114–115, 121, 125, 131, 197, 221n15

and Caetani’s analysis, 52

condemnation by Giovannitti, Flynn, Child and the anti-Fascist American press, 57–62

pro-Fascist press and the murder of Matteotti, 66–71

mazzieri,passim, xi

McReynolds, Samuel Davis, 24–25

Menicucci, Umberto, 37, 39, 82, 87–90, 103–105, 130, 219n3

and the American Press, 106–110

and the Chamber of Labor, 103–106

and founder of the Fascist association of New York, 37

interview to the New York Herald, 39

the Longo–Menicucci clash, the interventions of Bastianini and Mussolini, 87–90

Middle East, 8, 48–50

Missiroli, Mario, 30

Modigliani, Giuseppe Emanuele, 4, 6, 139–140, 147–148, 150, 228n3