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...Duce Benito Mussolini has never been one to bow to mass opinion, nor is he above giving the retort discourteous to those who dare criticize his actions. Five weeks ago there were murmurs of disapproval when he jolted the entire Fascist organization with the biggest shake-up in years, deposed ministers right and left and assumed two Cabinet posts himself. The hopes of those who felt that Fascism should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries...
Sirs: In your magazine of July 11 under the title "Heroes" you say: "Commander Waters suddenly took an early page out of Benito Mussolini's book and, in the spirit of Il Duce's 1922 march on Rome, proclaimed himself the veterans' dictator." May I suggest that Commander Waters can be compared to Mussolini as a rabbit can be compared to a lion? When Mussolini decided the march on Rome, before he reached the capital, H. M. the King of Italy wired him, asking to form a new Cabinet. Mussolini's followers, the "Black Shirts," were...
Benito Mussolini, nine years at the helm of Italy, has evolved two rules for his party that always work: 1) There shall never be a Duce No. 2. 2) Except Benito, no Fascist is indispensable...
Last week rule No. 2 was worked. Bearded Dino Grandi, for three years Foreign Minister, and Minister of Corporations Giuseppe Bottai were removed from office. Il Duce himself took over both their portfolios, the first of which he has held before. The move was particularly surprising to U. S. readers. Only two days prior they had read in the New York Times Biographer Emil Ludwig's interview with Mussolini in which Il Duce had said...
Knowing observers realized some weeks ago that it was nearly time for another Fascist shift, and last week came particular reason for Il Duce to be displeased with his Foreign Minister. Dino Grandi was a delegate to Lausanne, yet the Franco-British Accord de Confiance was apparently as much of a surprise to him as it was to editors in the U. S. The accord contained a joker particularly unpleasant to Italy: a deeply buried hint of Franco-British naval accord in the Mediterranean. Benito Mussolini dealt gently with his deposed Grandi. Day after his removal was announced, Grandi...