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Accent came with the next words. Try 'as he might Il Duce could not keep up the pace he had set with "ladies and gentlemen." His Italian larynx clipped "people" first to "peepl" and finally to "peep." His "the" gradually became...
Friendship, Progress, Prosperity. Before preparing his speech to U. S. citizens 77 Duce studied carefully recent radio speeches made by Herbert Hoover. As a knowing Roman official put the matter last week, "His Excellency was careful not to talk explosively, like your Al Smith...
...promise was to Lady Curzon, handsome American wife of the late Baron Curzon of Kedleston. Just before his departure from the Lausanne Conference in 1922, Il Duce said to her: "I could not write an English letter to you today. But within a month I shall be able to do so and I promise you you shall receive...
Under "potted palms" lurked Embassy secretaries "similarly armed." All the Ambassador's Italian servants "except his trusted butler" had been given the afternoon off, lest one of them assassinate Il Duce. To the Ambassador and Mrs. Garrett a friend sent humorous congratulations (for the point of the story was supposed to be that Il Duce had never before humored an Embassy hostess by a tea call). Came from Rome last week this cabled reply: EXCEPT FOR REVOLVERS RISKS SERVANTS SECRETARIES POTTED PALMS CORNERS AND SIX-SHOOTERS THE ARTICLE IS A TISSUE OF TRUTH STOP MERRY CHRISTMAS. JOHN AND ALICE...
Considerable gloom tempered the Christmas festivities of Fascist officials last week. II Duce had just announced in the Senate that the budget for the first five months of fiscal 1930-31 showed a deficit of $43,700,000. Salaries of all state employes from II Duce down to the humblest postman had already just been cut 12%. To offset this 43-million loss further it was announced that $15,000,000 will be lopped from the budgets of all ministries -that is, from all but the war budget. The Italian Army will cost $156,000,000 next year; the navy...