Surrounded by a resplendent guard of Fascist mounted police, a lavishly decorated coach slowly ascended the Capitoline Hill, famed cradle of Imperial Rome. As the coach drew up before the Capitol itself, Dictator Premier Benito Mussolini regarded it benignly, and extended a cordial welcome from a balcony of the Capitol itself.
Senator Filippo Cremonesi, who emerged from the glittering vehicle, looked a trifle abashed.
A few moments later the voice of Il Duce Benito boomed from the Capitol as he inducted Senator Cremonesi as the first Governor of Rome...
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