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Returning alone and tired to his Villa Torlonia home one evening some years ago, Benito Mussolini decided on the spur of the moment to go into a cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...
Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...
Moreover, before the Rumanian Senate, Youth Leader General Theophilus Sidorovici disclosed that Benito Mussolini would guarantee Rumanian frontiers. That Carol was at any rate listening to Herr Hitler's propositions was evident when Premier George Tatarescu's Government released 786 Iron Guard terrorists from jail...
Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car. A red carpet, flanked by specially provided potted palms pointed...
...several respects the raid was a World War II first: numbers, timing, effect. It coincided perfectly with Adolf Hitler's visit to Benito Mussolini: as much as to say, if we can do this to you boys at Scapa, how about Gibraltar and Alexandria...