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Signor Benito Mussolini is content with even less, partly because Il Duce is the only head of a State able and up-to-date enough to realize that be his pen he can advertise his country abroad and mold public opinion in his favor. He alone both rules and writes...
...words of our Duce were opportune and justified. ... He had foreknowledge of the military preparations of France [i.e. the inclusion of $40,000,000 for military expenditures in the current French budget]. . . . Nobody in the world can have the colossal impudence to believe (hat the gigantic program of French armaments are in consequence of Signor Mussolini's speeches...
...understand why, although the Duce never talked of foreign peoples and governments, but alluded solely to men, parties and sects, his speeches created such a great impression in France...
...cabinet session some days later Il Duce announced that Italy will spend $26,000,000 extra this year on armaments, an "answer to France" which Le Temps of Paris, semi-official organ of the French Government, "answered back" with an editorial furiously flaying the Mussolini brothers but concluding "war against Italy would be . . most absurd...
...Rome itself with this same play, despite the fact that the Vatican Concordat expressly provided that the Fascist state would allow nothing to occur in Rome to injure its position as the home of Catholicism. Present at this heretical performance, and publicly applauding was none less than Il Duce himself...