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Italian Fascism was 19 years old. From the usual balcony of the Palazzo Venezia, Benito Mussolini spoke his usual bombast to the usual picked, cheering crowd: Bolshevism . . . is dying...
...Mussolini, by convention, the great Italian past meant the great days of the Roman legions. To many an Italian it meant defeat at Guadalajara, in Greece, in Africa. Last week the Stefani news agency reported from the Russian Front that Italian troops attached to the victorious German Army were doing their part...
...Under Mussolini, the people of Italy are also going forward into the 20th year of Fascism without several things-without warm clothes, without an adequate supply of food. Saved from Bolshevism, Italy has handed her whole economic life over to hard-headed Nazi experts. Speaking in Trieste, Roberto Farinacci, Mussolini mouthpiece, hopefully told a crowd of 40,000 that Germany "will not betray" Italy after...
...week poured platoons of German economic troubleshooters. First delegation was led by Adolf Hitler's top economist, Minister of Economics Dr. Walther Funk. After him came Trade Expert Dr. Karl Clodius and another brigade of graph-&-slide-rule underlings. When both the Doctors had finished talking to Benito Mussolini and his financial experts the Axis "had reached full agreement on all the most important economic questions connected with...
...days after Dr. Funk left Rome, Mussolini announced the most drastic housecleaning that Italy's economic administration has ever had. Twenty-two Fascist guilds oversee the whole industrial and agricultural life of II Duce's Corporative State. Last week Mussolini fired or shifted the top executives...