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Every now and then Fascist editors announce that Il Duce has suppressed the dread Sicilian Mafia "entirely," but every now and then a few hundred more Mafiosi are dragged into court...
...announced that work on the new war boats laid down in the French naval program will be suspended for six months. In Italy the Fascist press took its friendliest tone toward France in weeks, not forgetting to hail M. Briand's announcement as a great diplomatic victory for // Duce...
...Benito Mussolini's fiery speaking tour on which he thundered against the "enemies of Italy" (without mentioning them) at Leghorn, Florence, Milan (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Perhaps with intent to frighten would-be assassins, an astonishing poster was stuck up everywhere. It showed the face of Il Duce in thunder-black silhouette. Circling his face in lightning-like letters were these words: "GOD SENT US THIS MAN! WOE BETIDE HIM WHO HARMS...
When Signor Mussolini appeared on a balcony of the Palazzo Vecchio to speak he was announced to the Florentine populace by two heralds in red and white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
Last year 95% of all cars made in Italy were Fiats. Senator Agnelli presented Il Duce's daughter Edda with a Fiat on her wedding day, has bestowed upon the present Pope five Fiats...