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...coldest and most self-possessed statesmen in Europe, he always leaves a rattling war display in high exuberance. Last week he sped from the games to the most fecund little town in the Kingdom to expound his favorite rabbit philosophy of Empire. As the fathers & mothers of Potenza and their highly numerous offspring thronged around him with cheers, Orator Mussolini cried: "Those who have a right to Empire are the fecund peoples-those people who have the pride and the will to propagate their race on earth-VIRILE PEOPLES in the strictest meaning of those words!" In what appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: War Games & Mothers | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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