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...approach of a great moment, ignored the super-news interest of a speech by the Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
They cabled that II Duce "thundered": "... We must at a certain time be able to mobilize 5,000,000 men. We must be able to arm them. We must fortify our navy and make our air force so strong and numerous that its roaring motors will drown all other sounds, its shadow hide the sun over Italian soil. We will be able then, between 1935 and 1940, when I believe there will be a crucial point in European history, finally to make our voice heard and see our rights recognized...
...first quotation might have been the remark of an imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
...gold dust, making it more prized in gold-greedy eyes. Soon men will work longer, or will give more in exchange for a bit of this enriched paper. Unfortunately the process is slow, unequal at first in the case of different places or commodities, and therefore highly painful. II Duce, courageous, sought last week to get the inevitable over as quickly as possible by jamming down prices and wages with one fell thrust...
...revolt was led by Don Galbiati, parish priest. Several Fascists were wounded but carabineers saved their lives. The priest's superiors forced him to surrender to the police, who sent him to prison at Milan, where he awaits trial on a charge of inciting rebellion and insulting the Duce. . . . Encouraged by general discontent, Communists are issuing from secret sources several propaganda sheets with a total circulation of 500,000. These broadsides are filled with violent anti-Fascist tirades and insults to the Duce...