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...Milan last week, with Achilles ("Pantherman") Starace, No. 2 Fascist and Party Secretary, in his retinue, sped Head-of-the-State Benito Mussolini to build up the morale of that industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...
...Benito Mussolini loves maps. But when his eye leaves Italy, it finds only Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in Africa for Italian colonies. It is Asia, the East, that gives him the stuff for vast, cloudy dreams. What Japan has done in Manchuria, what France is doing in Yunnan, Italy may well do some day in the Orient...
...started digging trenches on the hillside. Two British officers, Major General Sir Jocelyn Percy and a Major Cripps, instructors to the Albanian gendarmery, did more than anything else to prevent an open break. The cruisers were withdrawn, and last week reason returned to Puppet Zog. He was persuaded by Benito Mussolini to accept a handsome loan with which to buy more munitions from Italy. Ten thousand Italian settlers will be admitted and Italian officers will continue to command the Albanian Army...
Italy's War Minister was busy last week. Less than a month ago Benito Mussolini straddled a tank in an open field and shouted to his officers: "We must become a military nation, even a militaristic nation, even a warlike nation" (TIME, Sept...
Italy's Minister of Corporations was no less busy last week than the Foreign Minister and the Minister of War (see above). The loudly-heralded but still intangible Corporative State advanced another step toward actuality when Minister of Corporations Benito Mussolini announced the make-up of the newest member that will compose the ideal Fascist State: the Corporation of Agriculture...