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What is Benito Mussolini today? He has been a Socialist, atheist, terrorist- but may he not have changed? Last week, in an amazing contribution to the Enddopedia Italiana, Signor Mussolini tried to define the "Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism." succeeded in defining himself, exposing some of his innermost mental processes. Excerpts: Peace. "Above all," wrote 77 Duce, "Fascism does not believe in the possibility or advisability of perpetual peace. It therefore rejects pacifism. . . . Only war leads to the maximum tension of all human energies and sets the seal of nobility on people who have the virtue to face...
...threat of a duel was injected by General Balbo who lisped fiercely: "I consider this a personal insult which Signor Costamagna is at liberty to reply to in his own manner...
Bomber Bovone explained to the tribunal last week that the "antiFascist concentration" in Paris had offered $50,000 for the assassination of Signor Mussolini, $5,000 for Crown Prince Umberto, lesser amounts for members of the Grand Fascist Council. He said he had no personal fondness for assassination, but found that the bombing business enabled him to support his mistress in luxurious style. Sbardellotto professed to be an idealist, announced that he was carrying on the work of the executed Michele Schirru. He said he had been chosen to kill the Premier by lots cast in Brussels. Had Signor Mussolini...
...will strengthen the German wing. Four new Americans are on the list: Tenor Richard Crooks, Soprano Helen Gleason. Contralto Rose Bampton, Baritone Richard Bonelli. Three operas will be added to the repertoire: Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Giachino Antonio Rossini's II Signor Bruschino...
Premier Mussolini is his own Minister of Interior. Last week Italians were reading the latest biography of Il Duce (the 30th within six years), written by his Under Secretary of Interior Giuseppe Cavaciocchi. Excuse: Signor Cavaciocchi feels he knows, from daily contact, exactly how the Great Man works...