Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He climbed into a French fighting plane, a 300-horsepower Nieuport; did loop-the-loops, head-spins, side-drifts, grapevines, fluttering-leaves over Paris, on the day he told French senators: "That [Atlantic] flight of mine has not done anything to advance the cause of civilization. Yet I am not...
"Honorable Fascist Deputies," he said, "I am very sorry and profoundly humiliated to announce to you that my speech today will not be as short as mine usually are . . . I need to take the Italian nation and place it in front of itself. . . .
"Finally, the third part of my speech will contain a polemic, a part for which, as you know, I am particularly fitted [laughter], and during which I wish to amuse myself by goading all internal and external enemies of the Fascist regime [approval], . . ."
The story was treated in the U. S. press like the confession of a man who publicly admits that he is going to buy a rifle and expects some day to practice on his neighbors. The real story was that Signor Mussolini spoke as might a sturdy householder who said...
". . . Five years ago I thought that after five years I would have finished the major part of my work. Now I see I have not, 1 am convinced that, despite the gradual creation of a directing class, despite the discipline of the people, I must assume the task of governing...