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...tribute to him!" wrote Il Duce in a special foglio d'ordini, Fascist order sheet. "Before you, oh shades of our unforgettable martyrs who await him, I bid him farewell. A true Fascist, faithful to order, he died serenely...
Fascist orders concerning the funeral of Quadrumvir Bianchi were that there was to be no music in the procession but the rolling of oilcloth-muffled drums, no flowers on the coffin or at the grave except two wreaths, one from the King, one from Il Duce. Wreath money, it was ordered, should be given to charities in Calabria, home of Quadrumvir Bianchi...
...last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...
Often has the government of stern Dictator Benito Mussolini demanded stiff sums from Italian taxpayers. But last week // Duce was in relenting mood, perhaps because a neighboring dictator had just fallen...
...newspaper man nearly all his life. Sur rounded by Italy, he edits in a little isle of refuge from Fascist censorship, says anything he and the Pope pleases, but knows that if he goes too far copies des tined for subscribers in Italy will be .quietly destroyed by Il Duce's police. Newest thing in Italian journalism is a 16-page tabloid sheetlet published in a secret place, written by persons unknown, furtively distributed throughout Rome. Its name : Loud Speaker. Its object : to attack Dictator Benito Mussolini with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before...