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...Fascisti obey the Party and its Duce, think with it and him (as best they can). Further on in his letter Pope Pius accused Fascisti of "exposing youth to inspirations of hate and irreverence . . . rendering difficult and almost impossible the practice of religious duties . . . and . . . permitting public exhibitions of feminine athletics, the improprieties and inconveniences of which even pagans realized...
...wages and lowered prices three months ago (TIME, Dec. 1). Fortnight ago came the first strike by Italian workmen in many years (TIME, April 6). Last week Dictator Mussolini decided that his patient had taken enough anti-depression medicine. "We have reached a limit [in wage cuting]," declared II Duce at Rome, "beyond which it is impossible to go without running into danger that the antidote may become a poison. . . . Italy was the first to apply what has now been adopted by almost the whole of Europe.... On the whole certain symptoms of recovery may be seen...
...every knowing Roman knows, Benito Mussolini has two faces, the scowling imperial mask which II Duce wears on every public appearance before his countrymen, and the unassuming, jovial expression with which he welcomes foreign visitors who need no intimidation. With a nice blend of the two expressions II Duce mounted a rostrum in Rome last week to open the International Grain Conference, a meeting attended by delegates of 46 wheat-growing nations. He scowled slightly because he knew that his photograph and his words would be reported in every Italian newspaper. He smiled often, avoided dogmatism, because he realized that...
...Since II Duce organized his country as "the corporative state"* there had not been a single open strike in Italy until last week. Suddenly the weavers of Parabiago and Legnago walked out of their mills, struck against a cut which reduced their wage to twelve lira (62?) per day. For its first four days the strike was like any other, then bands of Fascist militia began to converge upon the district. In a sense, II Duce's "corporative state" was on trial. Presumably his blackshirt militia would break the strike...
...themselves they defy solution. Bismarck could unify and control Germany by outwitting Napoleon III, but no man today can lay out a course for himself and hope to outwit circumstance. To elaborate this point the author cites the case of Mussolini in Italy. His contention is that if Il Duce had lived in the last century his tremendous ability coupled with the country's military strength would have allowed them to assume the leadership of Europe. Today, however, the problem presented by industry and economics prevents him from making any warlike gestures. One man is not capable of controlling...