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...impervious to criticism is Benito Mussolini. He explained last week the series of fiery speeches in which he not long ago called cannon beautiful (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Conscious that the French press has been painting him successfully as a war monger, Il Duce said with quiet earnestness...
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini hastily canceled an engagement to speak in Rome on Oct. 25, promised to be in Assisi on the day set by Princess Giovanna. For Il Duce, obedient to Royalty though he may have seemed last week, the marriage is a great personal triumph. He has now lined up Bulgaria with Albania and Hungary in the "iron ring" of pro-Italian nations he is slowly forging around Italy's No. 1 Balkan enemy, Yugoslavia...
...heels of Il Duce's recent threat to punish speculators and dishonest financiers with "Death" (TIME, Oct. 13) followed, last week, drastic action -though not quite so drastic as might have been expected...
...Saved!": "In our usual blunt, precise Fascist style, without euphemism and without reticence, we admit," said Il Duce, "that our general economic situation has grown worse since last October, when the American crisis burst with the violence of dynamite...
When Prosperity? Brightening as he approached prophecy, Il Duce ended gravely but optimistically thus...