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Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...
...thoroughly disillusioned warrior. The first step in the process of his disappointment was the frenzied joy with which Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him. On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce may have reposed in his partnership...
...imaginary "Red" (French) invasion. Suddenly, mysteriously, the maneuver ended. As suddenly, Hitler invaded Poland, the Allies declared war. Il Duce disappeared from public view. It was rumored that he had had a heart attack. Whether or not he was sick, his heart was certainly sore. After 17 years of martial preparation for the second World War, he had been forced by his generals to realize that whether or not Italy wanted to fight, Italy could not fight...
...hospital employes; on aliens who have started nightclubs in London's West End, where service men on leave, their tongues loosened on "bottle parties," are prone to speak too freely. As an example to tighten British tongues and defeat the spy system from that end, a court-martial in London last week deprived an unnamed naval officer of his commission for "careless talk...
...Phillips, Governor of Oklahoma. The flood he was determined to stop would have been caused by the scheduled closing of the gates of gigantic, almost completed Grand River Dam, would have submerged 52,000 acres of northeast Oklahoma. Said Red Phillips, clamping down on his cigar and clamping down martial law on Grand River Dam: "I am moving the troops in before they get that dam in such shape that it will take dynamite to let the water...