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Repercussions of the week following Signor Mussolini's dynamic Cabinet decrees (TIME, July 12) by which longer working hours and greater frugality are legislated upon Italians...
...like the animals. I can feel the future as it approaches. Some instinct guides and warns me. My blood speaks! I must listen to my blood." Thus Signor Mussolini is wont to explain the promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life...
...public buildings and monuments of Rome and other Italian cities to the splendor of Augustan days. Missing Minister. Though Mussolini sped the issuance of his Cabinet's decrees behind locked portals, the reported absence from this vital session of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni loomed of major import. Signor Federzoni is suave, aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant timbre, which engenders fear. It is well known that he attends Mass every morning before seeking his Ministry. Perhaps less known is the fact that in the councils of Fascismo he speaks- not always softly-for the Vatican...
...Dominus Apostolicus, according to Signor d' Annunzio, finds his palate so agreeably titillated by "cherry elixir" that plans are going forward to erect a "monastery" near D' Annunzio's exotic home on Lago di Garda (TIME, July 5), in which this rare tipple may be produced for ecclesiastical and lay consumption...
Eight months ago (TIME, Nov. 16) onetime Socialist deputy Tito Zaniboni was pounced upon by Roman policemen as he peeped through the telescopic sights of a rifle. For hours thousands of Fascists howled for Zaniboni's blood. Then Signor Mussolini?well knowing that the rifle had been trained upon a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi whence he had been scheduled to speak?stepped dramatically upon that balcony and cried: "Fascists, No Revenge! You will obey! You will take no revenge upon Zaniboni, because I wish...