Naldi claims he virtually engineered Mussolini’s break with the Party. He himself first suggested to Mussolini that he found an opposition paper. For two months Mussolini hesitated, in part because he doubted the requisite funds could be found. But Naldi provided the necessary means and even supplied the paper on which the first editions of Il Popolo d’ltalia were printed. The money which he passed to Mussolini, he asserts, came from various Italian industrial groups, including Fiat and Ansaldo, which presumably wished to promote dissension in the Socialist Party as well as to encourage eventual Italian intervention. Mussolini at first hesitated to accept their support; eventually he acceded. Naldi concludes that the flow of funds from Italian industrialists continued for several months, at least until February 1915.