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...Nazi hooligans having been sent from Germany to foment opposition to II Duce in Italy's German-speaking Tirol and to beat up Fascist sympathizers, the Dictator quietly moved up several Italian battalions which arrived in the night, doffed uniforms, put on civilian clothes and next day gave the German hooligans the beating of their lives while Italian police pretended to marvel at the frequency of brawls and fist fights. As the Nazis fled to Nazidom, the regiment resumed uniforms, the Tirol resumed its calm and in Rome spokesmen for II Duce scoffed politely at "those fantastic rumors from...
Instead of sailing for New York last week, comfortably full of U. S. tourists, Italy's gaudy, ornate, popular Vulcania cleared from Naples pack-jammed with excited Italian troops. They waved pith helmets, brandished rifles tipped with the Italian tricolor and roared alternately "Live The Duce!" and "Live The King!" In each soldier's breast pocket was a handy picture of Il Duce inspiringly autographed...
Thirty thousand gallons of airplane gasoline meanwhile arrived in Italian Somaliland, ready to power the bombers that Il Duce and Il Re may hurl against Abyssinia's Emperor Power of Trinity, who is the Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect of God to over 5,000,000 Negroids...
Smart as he looks, the knife-nosed Emperor, having received Il Duce's ultimatum demanding salutes, indemnities and establishment of a neutral zone, sent down to the frontier of Italian Somaliland an Abyssinian mission with a Swedish and a Belgian military observer "to ensure fairness in establishing the neutral zone," ignored Il Duce's demands for salutes, indemnities
...advised venture into tabloid publishing. He repeats the story (for which General Smedley D. Butler was afterwards rebuked by the Navy Department for retailing in a public speech) that Mussolini was a hit-&-run driver, asserts that he was in the car when II Duce, going 90 m. p. h. around a sharp curve, ran over a child and refused to stop. The late silver-tongued Lord Balfour may well writhe in his grave at Author Vanderbilt's alleged quotation of him: "A war's a war and a fool's a fool and all that sort...