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Starting a new slum clearance drive in Rome Benito Mussolini bounded to the roof of a moldering hovel, swung a housewrecker's pick with spectacular results. As Il Duce's suspenders snapped and he grabbed for his trousers, the crumbling roof gaped open at his feet and fellow Fascists had to jerk him back to safety...
...Italy today Benito Mussolini is "The Prince" (i. e. the State) as imagined by Niccoló Machiavelli. Different was Prince Don Gelasio Caetani who died last week. He closely fitted the ideal of Erasmus: "The Prince exists for the sake of the State...
After the War Prince Caetani was elected Mayor of Rome, refused to take office as a protest against civic corruption. Elected a Deputy, he was one of the first authentic Italian princes to rally to "The Prince," Benito Mussolini, months before the March on Rome...
...Caetani lands, kept all he could and was among the first Italian proprietors to cooperate with Il Duce in Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept of Benito Mussolini: an Italy so developed by land reclamation that for the first time in modern history she could feed herself...
Before he could be caught "Master Mind" Pavelitch had slipped over into Italy. The Italian police detained him at Turin, refused to let him be quizzed by agents of the French Sûreté Nationale who loudly protested to High Heaven and Benito Mussolini. Obviously Il Duce cannot take the chance of a French frame-up to plant responsibility for the crime in Italy or her protege Hungary.. Last week there was distinct danger that on this issue Jugoslavia might prefer charges before the League. A bit too precipitously Premier General Julius...