 However, Mussolini told the other "gerarchi" that he needed the king's support and that one day, another fascist revolution would take place "without contraceptives".The King failed to move against the Mussolini regime's abuses of power (including, as early as 1924, the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti and other opposition MPs).During the Matteotti affair of 1924, Sir Ronald Graham, the British ambassador, reported