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Fascist League of North America
Lega Fascista del Nord America
AbbreviationFLNA
Formation1924; 100 years ago (1924)
FounderPaolo Thaon di Revel
Founded atNew York City, NY, USA
Dissolved1929; 95 years ago (1929)
TypePolitical pressure group
Legal statusDefunct
PurposeItalian fascist propaganda
HeadquartersBoston, MA, USA
Key people
  • Theon di Revel
  • Generoso Pope
  • Giacomo De Martino
Affiliations
  • Tammany Hall (organization)
  • Il Progresso Italo-Americano (newspaper)

The Fascist League of North America (FLNA) was an umbrella group for fascist Italian-American organizations founded in 1924. With the rise of fascism in Italy, grassroots Fasci clubs started to form in Italian-American communities in the United States. Despite hostility from Italian diplomatic officialdom, who saw such a move as counterproductive, nearly forty such groups had been organized by mid-1923.[1] In 1924, the groups came together under the umbrella of the FLNA.

During the early years of Benito Mussolini's rule, when the fascist dictatorship had not yet been consolidated and there were still outstanding diplomatic questions between the United States and Italy regarding war debts and emigration, the Italian National Fascist Party did not seek an official connection with the American fascists. But by the mid-to late 1920s, the party decided to extend its suzerainty over the foreign fascist groups through the Fasci Italiani all'Estero, or Fascists Abroad organization. Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel was sent to the US to organize the Fasci into the FLNA.[2]

Despite the continuing hostility of the Italian diplomatic corps, the FLNA had the support of fascist ideologues on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States it could count in particular on the support of two Italian-American newspapers, Domenico Trombetta's Il Grido della Stirpe in New York and Francesco Macaluso's Giovinezza in Boston.[3] The United States Department of State was ambivalent, initially viewing the FLNA as a group committed to law and order and anti-communism, and seeing no reason to ask for its disestablishment despite the Italian ambassador's offer to do so.[4]

The presence of the FLNA provoked a counter-response by Italian-Americans of liberal, socialist, communist and anarchist persuasion, and an Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America was formed as early as 1923 and continued into the 1930s.[5] Clashes between pro- and anti-fascist Italian-Americans became more common, ending in at least a dozen fatalities evenly divided between the two factions.[6]

The final death knell was a sensationalistic article published in November 1929, by Harper's Magazine, "Mussolini's American empire"[7] by Marcus Duffield claiming the FLNA was part of Mussolini's plot to control the Italian-American community in the United States and raise "soldiers for Fascism". The Italian government concluded that the American Fasci did Italy more harm than good. Mussolini instructed Ambassador de Martino to dissolve the FLNA, using the public outcry as a pretext.[8]

  1. ^ Cassels, Alan "Fascism for Export: Italy and the United States in the Twenties" The American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Apr., 1964), p. 708
  2. ^ Cassels, Alan "Fascism for Export: Italy and the United States in the Twenties" American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 3 (April 1964), 709f
  3. ^ Iorizzo, Luciano "Fascism" The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia, 216
  4. ^ Iorizzo, Luciano "Fascism" The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia, 216f
  5. ^ Iorizzo, Luciano, loc. cit.
  6. ^ de Caprariis, Luca "'Fascism for Export'? The Rise and Eclipse of the Fasci Italiani all'Estero" American Historical Review, loc. cit.
  7. ^ Harpers online
  8. ^ Iorizzo, Luciano Fascism: The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia, 217.

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