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Shortly before San Marino's 13,948 inhabitants elected a 100% Fascist Council, their Government had made a democratic gesture. The Republic issued a three-lire and a five-lire Abraham Lincoln postage stamp. Below democratic "Honest Abe's" profile was reproduced a part of a letter he sent to San Marino in 1861: "Although your dominion is small your state is nevertheless one of the most honored in all history." President Lincoln thereafter became Honorary Citizen No. 1 of San Marino...
...Salvemini, noted as an opponent of the Fascist regime in Italy, pointed out that half a billion lire, or $25,000,000 has been spent to entertain Der Feuhrer. "Mussolini wants to make a big show," he said, revealing that the Rome-Berlin axis has been unpopular in Italy for some time, even among members of the Fascist Party. He said that it was his belief that most of the real treaty-making and bickering had been done before Hitler's visit, or will be done now that he has departed...
...office. They were representative of the 94 big winners in his More Babies Contest who have had 727 children (7.7 apiece) in the last eleven years. Each received from the Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
...soil, 20,000 Germans. Thousands of Italian troops unappreciative of the political differences which have set Spanish brothers at one another's throats, have genuinely volunteered for Spanish service for the sake of a bonus dangled before them by Dictator Mussolini, of from 1,000 to 3,000 lire ($53 to $159). Other Italian soldiers have simply been notified that volunteers are wanted. Colonels reportedly say to their battalions: "All men not prepared to volunteer fall out of the ranks." In still other cases Italians have been shipped to Spain from Italian East Africa, or have been "sent...
...himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months in a hospital, was retired by the Italian Boxing Federation with a 40,000-lire bonus...