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Even a great Correspondent must begin by taking his bearings. Therefore the first column and a half cabled by Mr. James was a bright, bedtimish story about Italia Bella, no longer famed lioness with which Il Duce was once wont to pose and gambol publicly (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). Moral of the tale: Signer Mussolini is now so unshakably in power that he no longer needs to bolster up the legend of his invincibility by posing in a lion's cage...
With his bearings firmly taken, Correspondent James proceeded to shed light on the recent acrimonious exchange of speeches between Pope Pius XI and Il Duce, as to whether the Church or State shall predominate in educating Italian Youth. Mr. James significantly revealed that in the course of smoothing down this quarrel, Signor Mussolini has agreed that the Fascist Youth organizations shall hereafter receive spiritual training under the auspices of the Church, while all other instruction shall continue lay and Fascist...
Though Il Duce and Il Re are known to be not always upon the best of terms, the Prime Minister's office carefully informed the press that when news of the explosion reached Signor Mussolini "he bounded from his chair with a mixture of sadness and indignation upon his face." Later the Prime Minister & Head of the State telegraphed His Majesty as follows...
Thus, Editor Count Dalla Torre is both a loyal Son of the Church and a businessman of the world. As such he signed his authoritative initials, last week, to a leading article in L'Osservatore Romano which purported to explode the theory of a quarrel between Pope and Duce as follows...
...ratifying Il Duce's decree suppressing the Catholic Boy Scouts...