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...great piazza before the Cathedral of Milan, black-shirted Fascists swarmed like a Titan ant horde, rejoicing militantly at the third anniversary of Fascismo's "bloodless" triumph. Round the motor car of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, Fascists crowded in a tight packed mass-the quintessence of joyous adoration. Their leader's face, pale from recent ill health, lighted with an inextinguishable flame. Rising he cried: "Fascism has now broken down all dikes and overcome all obstacles . . . crushed its internal enemies. [Of] the currents abroad which are not resigned to our frontiers ... I must say that if tomorrow these...
Just how good a "soldier-molecule" is Edda Mussolini, daughter of Benito (TIME, Aug. 17), became promptly evident. Edda, invited to go for a motor trip by friends at Parma, telegraphed her father for permission. When the answer was delayed she replied to entreaties that she "come along anyhow": "Non! I am a disciplined Fascist. Without permission from my Duce* I refuse to move!" Near Leghorn, squadristi (gunmen) riddled a railway coach which they thought contained Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party and "big personal friend" of Benito Mussolini. Signer Farinacci, having chanced to miss his train, escaped...
Last week in Constantinople, energetic Prefect Emin Bey of the police force issued to his henchmen stout planks bristling with nails. "Throw these," said he, "before speeding motor cars. If they cannot stop, their tires will be sorely, multitudinously punctured." A scientifically infallible method of testing brakes! The Prefect's regulations included instructions to chauffeurs and coachmen not "to joke among themselves in unseemly manner or indulge in obscene remarks...
...four o'clock of a dull afternoon last month, a Lincoln motor ear waited outside the office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...
...Tires. Monte Blue is a picture actor whose popularity a great many people have been at a loss to explain. Again it must be said that if you are one of those who like Monte Blue you will not mind this picture. He starts out with a phobia against motor cars and comes to know them. The old, old automobile chase ends up the picture in tiresomely popular fashion...