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Britain being surfeited with colonies, her moralizing newsorgans have been roundly roasting Il Duce. Last week he shut out of Italy the Manchester Guardian and London's Daily Herald, Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Then a secretary laid on the Dictator's desk a pair of cable reports which got under his ex-editor's skin. The New York Times had just taken new British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's strictures against dictators (TIME, June 17) as the text for an editorial observing: "Mussolini has kept himself in power longer than most people thought possible...
Meanwhile II Duce had not expelled, nor was he likely to expel the most experienced handout accepter in all Rome, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi. Instead Dictator Mussolini barred from Italy for an indefinite period the New York Times, which continued to maintain Mr. Cortesi in Rome, printed a column from him on the subject of Mr. Darrah's expulsion...
...increasingly drastic mood, Il Duce ordered Italians to surrender all silver coins in their possession for paper, his Government requiring the silver to pay campaign expenses in Africa where blackamoors remain unshakably convinced that no kind of paper money is any good...
...Dictator Mussolini had called three more classes to the colors, making a total of over a million men available for use in Africa. They were leaving Italy last week at the rate of two shiploads per day. As a final twist to the British lion's tail, Il Duce went down to Ostia, took the controls of his trimotored seaplane and flew off over the Tyrrhenian Sea for his first visit in twelve years to Sardinia, found two miles of conscripts lined up ready to embark...
Benito Mussolini's horse bumped him into a low-hanging branch which knocked him off, blacked his eye. Imperturbed. Il Duce attended a large reception at the British Embassy that night...