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Arturo wields the baton, Benito the thunderbolt. Arturo Toscanini, most famed of Italian opera conductors, has refused for three successive years to allow his orchestra at the great Milan opera house, La Scala, to play "Giovanezza," the Fascist hymn. To the ears of Benito Mussolini reports have come that Toscanini has defended his refusal as follows: "Never! I refuse to turn La Scala into a market place for Fascist demonstrations. They have the square outside and also the Galleria nearby for that, but while I conduct the Scala orchestra, it will remain the home of opera and never will...
Your publication has the unmitigated effrontery to insinuate that liberty of the press does not exist in Italy, that the people are not freely represented in parliament (witness your sneering reference to the "docile senators"), and that the Fascist government is not representative and interferes with personal freedom. All this in face of the perfectly rotten political, social and racial situation prevailing in the U. S. where an arbitrary sumptuary law has been foisted upon the nation, with which it is not in sympathy; where a single race, the Jews, has attained a degree of political control making possible...
Whatever you may have against the Fascist regime and the Mussolini dictatorship (if you like) at its very worst, it has never interfered with the personal habits of anyone, and in Italy we don't have to pay for the support of a lot of Izzy Einsteins, nor are we tied to a paternal government's apron-strings in respect of the beverages we want to drink. That may not be much, but it is something...
...term "corporation" denotes at present in Italy not a business organization but the Fascist social mechanism through which a given class achieves representation before the Government and deals with other classes similarly organized. Thus groups of capitalists and laborers are legally restricted to dealing with one another through their "corporations," which are to be firmly interlocked with the mechanism of the state through the Premier's newly created office...
Rumors. Strange rumors escaped last week from behind the Fascist censor's dark screen so carefully adjusted to shut out all but the glories of Fascismo. It was told by a pressman at Basel, Switzerland, that Mussolin's intestinal complaint now makes it necessary for him to subsist chiefly on milk and rice, and he seeks forgetfulness from sharp internal pains by playing on the violin when he cannot sleep. At Lugano, Switzerland, another journalist just returned from Italy declared that Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned (TIME, April 12), as Secretary General of the Fascist Party, has definitely turned against...