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...between 10 and 15, the U. S.-born children of Italian parents, for a trip to Italy. It packs them aboard drip at New York, pays all their expenses. When they arrive in Italy, the children are sent to camps and clapped into the black-shirted uniform of the Balilla, Fascist youth organization. They march in military drills, learn to give the Fascist salute and to sing the praises of Mussolini. After touring Italian cities, where they are banqueted and reviewed by Government officials, back they go to the U. S., devout Fascists all, to awe and convert their neighbors...
Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...
That night youths of Benito Mussolini's smartly uniformed Fascist Balilla held flaming torches aloft to light the vast, half-ruined Colosseum. In the Arena, where wild beasts once tore Christian martyrs to bits, the 15,000 veterans prayed in unison for a solid hour "for forgetfulness by Mankind of the hatreds of the World War and the re-establishment of Good Will among all peoples...
Datsuns compete in Far East markets with the English Baby Austin, English or French Baby Ford and Italian Fiat Balilla. Datsuns, produced by the mighty House of Mitsubishi-second only to Japan's reigning commercial House of Mitsui-were something of a joke until a few months ago. Production then was less than 125 per month. Today Mitsubishi have invested $1,000,000 in brand new U. S. machinery, stepped production up to 500 cars per month. In Australia white salesmen moan as white prospects now buy from yellowmen 50 Datsuns per month, despite years of intensive Australian propaganda...
Preliminary which will include two classes: from 8 to 18, from 18 to 21. Training in the first period will be conducted through the Fascist Balilla and Avanguardisti "to give boys a passion for military life through frequent contacts with the armed forces whose warlike traditions and glories will be re-evoked." Besides drilling, 20 hours of the high-school year will be devoted to military history (the Fascist version of Italy's part in the War): map reading, the organization and duties of the various branches of the service. No schoolboy may be promoted to a higher class...