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Embarrassed, but unable to refuse a royal resignation, Il Duce concentrated on keeping at heel the Italian Line's directors, half of whom were said to want to resign and two of whom sent in resignations which were ignored...
...Your Excellency, I am 73 years old!" cried Director Vittorio Rolandi-Ricci, one-time Italian Ambassador to the U. S. and now a senator, dealing with Il Duce. "Surely, on account of my age-entirely on account of my age-I should resign...
...fattened; reduced, therefore, to a pure and simple vegetable life." Democracy. "Democratic regimes can be defined as those in which, from time to time, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign. . . . Fascism rejects in democracy the absurd, conventional lie of political equality." Bismarck. Seemingly II Duce finds the touchstone of Fascist policy in "Bismarck, who never knew where the house of the Religion of Liberty was and of what prophets it made use." Stressing that Germans grew to be a world great people under Prince Bismarck's policy of "Blood & Iron," ambitious Benito Mussolini left his countrymen...
During the summer German Biographer Emil Ludwig spent several weeks in daily contact with II Duce, doubtless filled him full of Bismarck, drew from his host some strikingly cynical remarks. Thus Herr Ludwig says that Signor Mussolini said to him: "I do not think that a Duce No. 2 will come-and, if he does, Italy will not endure...
Benito Mussolini fired 24 shots at Italy's national rifle tournament, scored twelve bull's-eyes, forgot to open his breech lock when finished. Said an official, "I am sorry, Your Excellency, but you are fined five lire [26?]." Smiling, Il Duce paid...