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...Capitol and strode toward his automobile. In the general excitement no one noticed a wild-eyed white-haired Irishwoman who sprang up beside the Premier's motor and thrust a small object at him with both hands. Her gesture was not that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet sped, but not into Signor Mussolini's brain...
Suddenly the electric rumor of Mussolini's will stayed Fascist hands. II Duce had retained his ice-calm resolution, even while the powder burns stung him and the extent of his injury was not known. Before his wound could be dressed, he rapped out an order: "Let nothing be done which will bring reproach to our beloved Italy. I desire that the country be not alarmed. I do not want reprisals. It is my will. . . . If dangers confront us, I will face them with all equanimity. Now go home quietly without using violence...
Capitalists licked their chops and Socialists ground their molars as II Duce Mussolini thundered before the Italian Senate...
When the exhibition opened at Manhattan, supercilious critics expressed a mild surprise that the Italian sculptor Wildt had managed to get so brutal and unflattering a likeness of Il Duce past the Fascist censor. They dismissed the bust as an unpleasant thing to look upon and turned away...
Late in the week the Chamber again rang with Fascist cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of pan-German propagandists to hinder his Italianization of the pre-War Alto Adige, or South-Austrian Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy at the Peace Conference...