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Wrote Pietro Savio to the Dictator: "Duce...
...show and small limelight did he give Adolf Hitler. Up to the very morning of their meeting in Venice last week both were nervous as tomcats. Each seemed to fear some hitch or double-cross. Each whipped his Press into absolute silence. Round about Venice, which Il Duce had not visited for eleven years, citizens, puzzled by elaborate preparations for they knew not what, jumped to a conclusion that Crown Prince Umberto was coming. Germans supposed their Chancellor was still in the Fatherland until their Press told them that he was already soaring over the Alps. Rome stressed that Berlin...
...rain coat standing beside their gorgeous Duce might be, shouted nothing but "Viva Mussolini!" Only a few German flags and a sprinkling of Nazi swastikas had been put up among the riot of Italian flags and Fascist banners. Except for some Ger mans who gathered on the opposite side of the Grand Canal and cheered them selves hoarse, the landing of Adolf Hitler at the Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw...
...Last February one George Richardson, expelled Mosleyite Fascist, sued for damages claiming that the Mosleyites not only copied Benito Mussolini's Black Shirts but also II Duce's notorious punishment of forcing victims to drink pints of castor...
...anniversary of Fascism in Italy, the trial of four men in Rome last week showed the world the stability of the Fascist regime. Leonardo Bucciglioni, Renato Cianca, Claudio Cianca and Pasquale Capasso were charged with the most serious crime in the Fascist calendar: plotting against the life of Il Duce, and exploding a terrorist bomb inside St. Peter's. Within the past decade more than one man has been tied to a chair and shot in the back for such an offense...