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...Fascist-controlled press of Rome displayed last week a little story, perfect as a gem, concerning small Bruno Mussolini, 9, younger son* of II Duce. Bruno's schoolteacher, it seemed, was recently examining him in grammar and desired to elicit the information that, in Italian, a verb may take the imperative mood in the second or third person but not in the first. "Now Bruno," said the examiner, "tell me in what person one cannot command...
...greatest French-speaking orator of their party now alive. His fame is international, his Socialism orthodox, courageous, enlightened. Therefore he did something last week, which recalled his refusal to shake hands with Signor Benito Mussolini at the Locarno Conference (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) on the imputed grounds that Il Duce is a backslidden Socialist turned traitor to "The Cause...
...preside, at Brussels, over the unveiling of a statue to the late murdered Italian Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.). This murder has been laid by many antiFascists directly to the instigation of Signor Mussolini. Consequently, last week, M. Vandervelde's announcement caused Il Duce such annoyance that he recalled to Rome the Italian Ambassador at Brussels, the Marquis Negrotto di Cambiaso...
...landlords. The Fascist regime immediately removed these restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value of the lira (TIME, Sept. 13), Signor Mussolini has made the new (lower) rentals which must be accepted by landlords worth as much...
...with tight shut eyes as Major di Bernardi gave his ship the "gun," sent it roaring down the field, pulled back his joy stick, took off in a flashing swoop. Then, amid the calm speed of upper air strata, the eyes of passenger Vittorio Mussolini, 11, son of II Duce, opened. Regaining his composure he, later, peeped and peered over the edge of his cockpit, at Italia, far below...