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...LIFE OF BENITO MUSSOLINI?From the Italian of Margherita G. Sarfatti?Stokes ($5). Emphatically, the Signora Sarfatti's biography must be read?if only because she is content to efface herself so often while the great Fascist thunders in his own words from her pages?reveals himself vividly in impetuous staccato phrases as compelling as those with which Napoleon Premier was wont to inspire and almost to hypnotize his armies...
Interpretess. Signora Sarfatti, wife of a prominent Italian lawyer and for many years a devoted assistant in his editorship of various newspapers, achieves her most telling passages in her interpretation of Mussolini's well known "about face" from Socialism to Fascism...
...warned the officer was unsafe. The mortar burst. Mussolini sustained 42 serious wounds, nearly died, lived to see Italy, although "victorious," slump into a period of post-War depression, discontent and unrest from which he felt that only the drastic "black shirts" could save her. To Signora Sarfatti, it was the Socialists who "deserted" Mussolini by betraying Italy?not the reverse...
Aside from such occasional, rather "complimentary censure," Signora Sarfatti avowedly sets forth her "Chief" as "a Roman of the ancient mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...