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Nearly half his speech II Duce devoted to flaying unregulated, laissez faire Capitalism which he said had been decadent since 1914, plunging toward ruin in an orgy of overproduction and inhuman standardization...
...kind of State which II Duce is creating will replace economic liberty (i. e. capitalistic laissez faire) by regulation of every phase of Italian production, agricultural as well as industrial, under the National Council of Corporations. Orating to this Council the Premier opened his mind on an amazingly wide range of subjects...
...Nations," he abruptly observed, "has become an absurdity" since the resignation of Japan and Germany. In European affairs, he hinted, the next important directives will be given not by the league of 57 states but by Britain, France, Germany and Italy which signed in Rome last July II Duce's Four-Power Pact. "At present there is a great silence about the Four-Power Pact," he went on. "Nobody talks about it but everybody is thinking about it!" Thereat the Council broke into applause...
...Council rose amid cheers for II Duce's kind of Capitalism. Next day he appointed his 21-year-old nephew, Vito Mussolini, to be editor and general manager of the Mussolini family newspaper II Popolo d'Italia of Milan, founded by Uncle Benito and edited after he became Premier by his late brother Arnaldo, Vito's father. Last week the first striking editorial to appear under Editor Vito's regime was also all about Capitalism-about the recognition by what II Popolo called the "ultra-Capitalistic" Roosevelt Administration of the Soviet Union...
...final audacity of the week, II Duce started rumors that he plans to withdraw Italy from the League of Nations by ordering the Grand Council of the Fascist Party to meet Dec. 5 "to make an important decision on Italy's relations with the League...