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Slightly cross-eyed youngest-son Romano Mussolini was at school, tricked out in the sissy Italian variant of an Eton collar (see cut). His little sister Anna Maria, the first child of the Dictator to bear "a good Catholic name," pursued her studies in the same class and both were cared for by fat, completely self-effacing Donna Rachele Mussolini who is her husband's idea of the perfect Italian wife. Above suspicion, she dwells most of the time in northern Italy, visited by her Caesar in a spirit of duty, which gives way at times to happy comradeship...
...Wolf. Eight-year-old Romano Mussolini, wearing the militant gear of a "Fascist Son of the Roman Wolf," invaded his father's office before the Dictator left for Bolzano. Coming to attention with his wooden musket, Moppet Mussolini cried: "Papa, I want to go and fight with Bruno and Vittorio...
...Grasping Romano's shoulders with a soldierly grip, Il Duce said: "You have spoken well, but your military class has not been called...
That this de-uniforming of his young visitors deeply offended Pope Pius appeared last week in the Vatican's official organ, Osservatore Romano, expressing "pained disgust" at the fact that Germans who had "spent a few days in the residence of a sovereign with whom the Reich is in relations of friendship, should be punished as if they had committed a sin. . . . Christ also received a rope when He was arrested, questioned, attacked and mocked because He was accused of having indulged in politics after a pilgrimage of love and redemption...
...usual the will and pleasure of the Supreme Pontiff were made known by the Papal paper, Osservatore Romano, with matchless sonority and unction: "The Holy Father has deigned to place his venerated signature to a law whereby the Governor of the State for a period of six months beginning Jan. 1, 1935 is given legislative power with reference to the constitution, the suppression and reorganization of the offices of civil administration...