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...second decree signed last week by Italy's short, bantamweight King, established the new supreme organ of state, the Fascist Grand Council (TIME, Oct. 1), by appointing 44 puissant Fascisti to sit as "the first two categories" of the Council. Il Duce was understood to be powerfully meditating on which Fascists he will tell His Majesty to appoint in the third category...
...regime had found strong expression in the socialist movement and in the revival of a nationalist movement which aimed at the consolidation of the national powers for the common good. The trials of war led to a complete debacle of the liberal system and gave rise to the Fascist movement, which, in its essence is a revolt against liberalism. Mussolini, as dictator, is the new state, and his chief aim is the galvanization of the nation's effort for the good of the whole. Hence his hostility to the parliamentary government and his attempt to reorganize the economic and social...
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...
...they are poor and come in droves on organized tours. When they are rich they think all Italy is theirs without discussion. They put on airs. They think we are 'natives' who must flatter them and serve them, even though they pay with a bad grace. What Fascist cares a damn for tourists...
...Should Fascist Italy be transformed into a grand equestrian circus, with Fascists disguised as clowns, citizens as horses, and II Duce the ringmaster? No! Italy today is an incandescent workshop in which a new destiny is being forged for the construction, piece by piece, of her future, like a big, victorious cruiser...