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...satisfied France, which can conceive of the League as strong only if its present principles are strengthened. It also satisfied II Duce whose idea of strengthening the League is to cut out most of its democratic-parliamentary apparatus and vest all League authority in a clique of Great Powers. "Signor Mussolini shares completely the view of Sir John Simon," beamed a spokesman for the Dictator...
...When Signor Mussolini rattles his poniard and makes large, inclusive gestures, the world makes a mental note of it and passes on, becoming less and less perturbed by each bombastic reiteration. But when he takes a definite national step, the world cocks an attentive ear. This time The Leader has planned a reduction, for the whole populace of wages and the cost of living, presumably simultaneously, both of the items to be lowered by ten or twelve per cent. Faced with severe international competition in the shrinking world market, Italy is forced, says Mussolini, to lower costs drastically. And this...
Promptly up popped that fiery Roman Syndicalist President Arturo di Marsanich of the National Confederation of Fascist Syndicates of Commerce. While Il Duce sat expressionless as stone, Signor Marsanich cried: "There is only one logical consequence of Fascist corporative policy: the Council of Corporations should absorb the Chamber of Deputies and become the sole legislative assembly. . . . Italy will then have an assembly of men qualified to legislate on economic matters as well as those qualified to legislate in the fields of ethics and politics...
What this finality will mean to Italy, Signor Marsanich (who seemed to be sending up trial balloons last week for Premier Mussolini) stated thus: "In industry the corporations will have to assume economic functions-even to taking the place of private initiative and writing finis to the capitalistic regime as now conceived-creating the best conditions and the most work possible. . . . It is not necessary to confuse private initiative with private ownership! Private property cannot and should not be abolished! But in the great industries . . . I regard the corporazione as the organ which will control...
...batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous...