If the number of times he is quoted by the press has any significance, Benito is the greatest orator in Europe.
Last week, Benito gave the Romans a treat. He spoke to 50,000 of them from the balcony of the Palazzo Chigi, Italian Foreign Office in Rome. The speech was of special importance, intrinsically, because it was the first Benito had pronounced since the cloud of the Matteotti murder tarnished his shining armor (TIME, June 23) ; extrinsically, because it was to sound the tone of the vox populi.
The speech was forced...
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