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...rename the tallest mountain in Europe after II Duced would christen the towering crag: MOUNT MUSSOLINI...
...Conscious that he was about to sound thus the tuba of Empire, Signor Mussolini sought to demonstrate, earlier in the week, that at least he has no designs upon crag-defended Switzerland. Said he to a Swiss newsgatherer: "The Swiss will never have occasion to fear Italy, nor any blow from here, nor any wicked enterprise. I love Switzerland. I have for Switzerland a preference which I have for no other country outside of my own. It is one of my sentimental frailties...
Signor Mussolini sped up the valley of the Tiber from Rome last week-up and up to crag-defended Perugia, the capital of Umbria. There he conjured a vision of sea power before men whose lives and thoughts are among mountains. Il Duce del Fascismo, smoldering-eyed, retold the ignominy of Rome before Carthage in the days when "Romans could not even wash their hands in the Mediterranean without permission from the Carthaginians...
...hacked and clambered upward His Imperial and Royal Highness was shown the sights. From yonder crag, it was pointed out, Lord Francis Douglas and three companions plunged to death while returning from the first ascent ever made to the "hump" (1865). Prince Chichibu, perhaps superstitious, resolved not to return as did Lord Francis Douglas. Daring, the Prince proceeded straight over the hump (the Italo-Swiss frontier) and prepared to descend by the far more dangerous Italian route, necessitating straight drops by means of Alpine ropes of several hundred feet...
Soul-weary with bricklaying, a swart, muscle-knotted Italian sought rest, detachment, beauty at the Hospice of St. Bernard, perched on a sheer crag above the green loveliness of Swiss Lugano...