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...Milan last week, with Achilles ("Pantherman") Starace, No. 2 Fascist and Party Secretary, in his retinue, sped Head-of-the-State Benito Mussolini to build up the morale of that industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...
...Milan, where 4,000 extra police had jailed all dissidents who might shoot at Il Duce, he had the sun-lit top of a 30-ft. tribune in Cathedral Square all to himself. He had hoped that the Milanese would march into the vast, empty square in nice-&-tidy Hitlerish ranks and provide a scene of disciplined might for the newsreels. The Milanese did better. They jammed into the square, clambered onto every pedestal, statue and ledge in the vicinity. The burly Duce, squinting against the refulgent sun, was obliged to wave his arms to get his flock to keep...
...Cremona Il Duce paused a moment to cement his recent reconciliation with potent Roberto Farinacci who had been Party Secretary before Starace's ascendency...
...reporters turn for diplomacy, so the conversation was switched to Il Duce, apparently a safe subject with any Italian. Il Duce, according to Beccali and Cerati, has put athletics on a par with studies and gives medals to all athletes who win distinction abroad. Until recently, it seems, there wasn't much competition for runners in Italy, but Beccali has been running in competition since 1926. Both Beccali and Cerati are university students, the former specializing in architecture, the latter in commercial science...
...Benito Mussolini. He offered to send any number of Italian Carabinieri into the Saar at once. Taking thought, Saar authorities refused this, feeling that the injection of Italian-speaking troops into this Franco-German stew would only make matters more difficult. Il Duce had another idea. The South Tyrol (except for the Trentino), and the country back of Trieste, taken from Austria after the War, still speaks mostly German. He would recruit a special force among the mountaineers who could talk back to the Saarlander but had only an academic interest in their problem. The League accepted with alacrity...