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Swarthy and reckless Signer Mario Carli, a young favorite of Il Duce, laid about him outrageously again, last week, in the lurid pages of his arch-Fascist Roman news sheet, L'Impero. Last fortnight Editor Carli outraged smart Italian women who slenderize themselves and refuse to have children by telling them (TIME, Jan. 21) that "such sweet egotists, such darling morsels of vanity, should be soundly smacked on every possible occasion!" Last week, even this ungallant bravado was eclipsed when Smacker Carli took a sounding wallop at tourists...
Thus last week stormed L'Impero, the arch-Fascist daily whose young proprietor-editor, Signor Mario Carli, is so especially a favorite of Il Duce...
Throughout the week no slightest mention of the proposed Concordat was made by Il Duce or Il Re. The favorable disposition of His Majesty is well known; but less than a year has passed since Editor Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of Benito, roundly declared in II Popolo d'ltolia that no possibility of a Church-State agreement then existed (TIME, April 9). However the Papal spokesman said, last week, that the rapprochement to which he referred had been negotiated "since September last...
Since the date of his appeal Il Duce has sent a signed photograph of himself to each begetter of twins or triplets. Last week things seemed to be going so well that Papa Benito-begetter of four single children-announced that henceforth he would not send photos to fathers of twins and triplets. By inference, only the begetters of quadruplets need apply...
...With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator felt strong enough to possess himself of the Ministry of Home Affairs, giving the Ministry of Colonies to Federzoni...