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Dino Grandi, spade-bearded Fascist delegate to the London conference, was the sensation of Mayfair drawing rooms by wearing, with formal evening dress, white collar and tie, a black shirt...
...giant with steel tendons which is Fascist Italy! We can take a little rest in order shortly to accelerate the tempo of our march. All public works not strictly necessary must be postponed. We propose to give the Italian taxpayers a period of repose. Dazio Consumo* [intercity taxation] is a relic of the Middle Ages now maintained only in France, Greece and Italy. It must be abolished...
...Osservatore Romano (The Roman Observer) is the name of the newspaper through which His Holiness the Pope anonymously makes known to the world what he thinks, feels, hopes about the world's mundane affairs. It also can be depended upon, no matter how neglectful may be the Fascist press of Italy and the lay press of other countries, to print each & every syllable of each & every statement, pronunciamento, bull and encyclical which His Holiness may wish to issue on affairs secular or spiritual...
...Tommaso Tittoni, was stricken with paralysis. A prominent member, Professor Alfredo Trombetti, went swimming at the Lido last summer, drowned in the lukewarm Adriatic. Giocchino Volpe, secretary of the academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor. Previously he had married a lady, described...
Last week at Rome, in the Via Monte Zebio, a plump little woman in rusty black clothes stood up to receive the approval of Fascist officialdom, the applause of learned contemporaries, the acclaim of 100 disciples from 21 nations. Dottoressa Maria Montessori had come home, after 16 years, to reinaugurate her Theoretical & Practical Training Course on Child Education, under the auspices of the Italian Government. An honorary member of the Fascist party since 1926, she had been recalled by Il Duce himself, elected by the Ministry of Education to conduct her own new experimental school -the Opera Montessori-after...