Censorship in the 1920s: Federal Council bans Mussolini caricature

About freedom of the press in Switzerland in the 1920s.

This caricature causes a diplomatic uproar and the burning of 3,000 newspapers: the Italian Duce Benito Mussolini (right), drawn as a bandit among bandits.

It’s not a particularly good caricature that enrages the Zurich henchmen of a fascist dictator and terrifies the Swiss Federal Council in 1925. A bald man with the face of the Italian Duce Benito Mussolini sits at a table, in front of him a purse, a knife and four sinister guys. Below the text:

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