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...workers knew the answer: "Il Duce! IL DUCE...
...Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Socialist daily Právo Lidu claimed last week to have found out what was lately agreed in Rome between Il Duce and Prime Minister Count Stephen de Bethlen of the kingless "Kingdom of Hungary" now ruled by a regent (TIME, April 28). They were said to have agreed that-"Little Otto" should marry an Italian princess, and that Italy would back the Hungarian parliament in proclaiming the ascension of "King Otto" on Nov. 20 this year (the day he reaches his majority). To this restoration of a Habsburg, France and her allies (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia...
...shouted the workers. "Very true," agreed the sagacious Duce, "and therefore Fascismo teaches you this!-never to consider your interest as separate from the national interest! If the nation were poor the working class would be poor. But the nation is powerful, and our working class is respected throughout the entire world...
...Open your newspapers!" was Il Duce's next sally. "Open this morning's newspapers and read how . . an English Minister in the Labor Government resigned because he did not know how to solve the most tormenting problem of potent Great Britain: unemployment! They have nearly 2,000,000 unemployed...
Golden silence is a coin few men can keep, more especially if they have been spendthrift talkers, boasters, threateners -as Signer Benito Mussolini used to be. Three years ago Il Duce resolved to become reticent, publicly announced his resolution (TIME, June 6, 1927), and has kept it with superhuman willpower. No longer does the Peace of Europe tremble every fortnight at his roar. Last week, however, the Dictator permitted himself a sort of spree, dashed at breakneck speed around Tuscany in his bellowing Alpha Romeo, fought a fencing match at Lucca, kissed on both cheeks his adversary General Romeo Lunghera...