ITALY: Benito Biographed

Of tribute to Mussolini there is no end. Il Re Vittorio Emanuele often sends him chamois shot upon the royal estates in Savoy. One humble Fascist is known to have done a painting for him in "pure salad oil." Last week there appeared a portrait of Il Benito done in 352 pages in jet-black printers' ink. Mussolini prefaced it with the remark, "I detest those who take me as the subject of their writings."

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