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Though such rumors were obviously intended to produce a maximum shock from a minimum content of fact, they made it impossible for Signor Benito Mussolini to continue to pass over in silence the resignation of Finance Minister Count Volpi. The response of Il Duce, obediently voiced by unanimous editorials in the State dominated press, was that Fascist Italy has perfected as a substitute for the cabinet crises of more democratic states the Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations. Stripped of rhetoric, the Doctrine means that, while France gets a new set of Ministers every time her Cabinet falls, the fact that Prime...
...blood and brains of Il Duce are, of course, assumed to be ceaselessly freshened and renewed, for he personally holds seven Cabinet*- a majority of the total...
Though uneasiness continued as to the ultimate effect of Count Volpi's retirement, panic rumors were virtually scotched by the ingenious "Doctrine"-which really amounted to assuring the public that Volpi had been sacked by Il Duce and had not resigned because he deemed the fiscal structure of Italy unsound...
Last week, Count Volpi resigned as Finance Minister. He is known to have incurred the ire of Il Duce on several occasions-notably when he insisted that the lira be put back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...
...careful telephonic questions of Dictator Mussolini were followed by abrupt commands. Consul Riccardi gulped that he understood, hung up, donned resplendent attire, and fairly strutted to the residence of Provincial Governor Stumpf. There, like a sparrow chirping for an eagle, he voiced the fairly temperate demands of II Duce: 1) Austria to supply a new flag; 2) Austrian soldiers to salute it; 3) Formal apology. Gruff Governor Stumpf, stumped, wired to Chancellor & Foreign Minister of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel for instruc- tions. "Yield," was the substance of the Monsignor's reply. On the same day that the flag...