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Tongue with Mule Bologna...
Last week the answer came from the other side of the Adriatic. In Rome, Naples, Padua; in Florence, Milan, Turin; in Bologna, Venice, Trieste and in many another city "Down with France!" and "Down with Jugoslavia!" resounded. In Rome 2,000 citizens of profound Fascist faith assembled at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and swore blind devotion to any command of their cherished leader, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...Bologna...
...Last week was the death centenary of the man who first understood that electricity flows in currents measurable in pressure units. "Volts" and "voltage" were the work of Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. His compatriot and contemporary, Luigi Galvani of Bologna, observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc...
...return to facts,the Republican wing of Fascismo is strongly entrenched at Bologna, Ferrara and other Emilian cities. General Balbo, at present all but shelved as Under Secretary of Aviation, was once the Commander-in-Chief of the Fascist militia, and built up in that capacity a strong Republican following at Bologna. Reputedly he was shelved when he envisioned himself as the eventual successor of II Duce. Forces allied with him may have been active last week in the World's "mysterious" plot...