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Once supposed to ride in a limousine with bullet-proof glass because he feared assassination, Benito Mussolini has recently taken to riding a motorcycle, setting informal fashions in dress. Though he sometimes still wears a top hat and cutaway. // Duce decided last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior...
...born and successively naturalized Greek and Spanish, took a train from Madrid to Rome, marched into St. Peter's last week with an old valise, checked it at the central gate, then wandered out into the bright sunlight of St. Peter's Square. Some time later a Fascist militia officer wandered idly about the swarthy man standing near the great obelisk with his fingers in his ears. Almost immediately there was a great dusty explosion. Demetrio Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw his passport into one of the plashing fountains, dived through the Bernini colonnade. Little...
Right arms extended, commander & crew recited in unison the Fascist oath...
...made such a good job of clubbing the opposition that he was put in charge of II Duce's own territory. When the Quadrumvirate marched on Rome, one of those quadrumvirs was 26-year-old Italo Balbo, his black shirt sporting the insignia of a lieutenant-general of Fascist militia...
...General" Balbo had done his job of political repression too well. In Ferrara. a priest had died of a beating. Balbo had to stand trial. Nothing was proved. He was acquitted, and II Duce commended him for behaving "like a Fascist and a gentleman." But there was so much fuss that Mussolini removed Balbo from the militia, let him cool off for a year or so. As Undersecretary of National Economy, he was a complete misfit. Finally Mussolini hit upon a plan for diverting into a useful channel his disciple's hot-bloodedness, ambition and ability as an organizer...