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...this eleventh year of Fascism," shouted Premier Benito Mussolini to 5,000 Fascist students massed in the square below his office last week, "your watchword more than ever before is this!"-and Il Duce held up ambidextrously a rifle in one hand and a book in the other...
Premier Mussolini is his own Minister of Interior. Last week Italians were reading the latest biography of Il Duce (the 30th within six years), written by his Under Secretary of Interior Giuseppe Cavaciocchi. Excuse: Signor Cavaciocchi feels he knows, from daily contact, exactly how the Great Man works...
...marvelous," declares Under Secretary Cavaciocchi, "to see how the most precise valuation of time and the most scrupulous system in program govern the intensely laborious days of our Duce! He talks little, often indicating to his associates what he wants done by a single word, a wave of the hand or a roll of the eyes...
...airway operators because of costly upkeep and a 30% tariff should they buy her, DO-X has no job waiting in Europe. An expensive experiment, she served as a model for her sister ships, DO-X II & III, younger but just as big. They fly for Il Duce's subsidized transport company, Aeroitaliano, will probably lug passengers between Genoa and Britain's Gibraltar...
...encased in a silver chest upon which he had engraved the Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice people, those Americans. . . . When some one is dead in America, he does not exist...