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Return. Late in the week, Mussolini re-embarked upon the battleship Conte di Cavour for Italy. As he steamed away 15 battleships followed. Observers opined that the numerous provincial Fascist secretaries who accompanied him will fire many an inland Italian with the desire to emigrate to Tripoli. There they may purchase an acre of land for the equivalent of $1, upon signing an agreement to expend the equivalent of $30 in improving it during the next ten years...
...Fiumicino, a seaport near Rome, he boarded the dreadnaught Conte di Cavour amid an ovation scarcely to be described. As the ship's crew cheered him from the rigging and from every other possible vantage point, he commanded silence with a gesture and proceeded to "introduce" the provincial Fascist secretaries to their directorate...
Throughout Europe these "Imperial" sentiments were viewed with the usual alarm. As the Conte di Cavour steamed away, she was followed by the Julius Caesar, by many another Italian warship whose name envisions the greatness of Italy...
...hours, a distance that used to take Caesar's legions two months of forced marches. She headed out over the Mediterranean for Corsica's upper tip. Colonel Nobile christened her radio with a message to Premier Mussolini ? steaming to visit Italian possessions in Africa aboard the battleship Cavour ? that all was well...
Last week a quite insignificant Roman shopgirl, Signorina Giovanna Fabbro, attempted suicide by jumping off the great Ponte Cavour into the Tiber, was restrained by Fascist police, lectured by a Fascist magistrate...