ITALY: Economics

Mussolini's Ambassadors spend much of their time outside the land of sunshine and black shirts in praising the modest leader of the Fascisti.

Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., addressed the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Manhattan last week. He defended the regime of Mussolini and said that it had reduced indebtedness, stabilized railroads, reduced the number of strikes, increased industrial enterprises.

"The outline of Mussolini's work", said the Ambassador, "can be summed in two words—economic reconstruction. Economics are at the root of every question in this world. They are...

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