Foreign News: Blatant Symbol

Mussolini with an emperor's fillet encircling his brow. Mussolini staring ferociously from sightless eyes, frowning like omnipotent Jove. Mussolini represented by a bust of sinister green bronze, ten times natural size. Such was the symbol of imperialism which arrived recently at Manhattan,U.S. A., and was shipped to Boston last week as the chief item in a traveling exhibit of Italian art, which has been both sponsored and censored by the Fascist Government.

When the exhibition opened at Manhattan, supercilious critics expressed a mild surprise that the Italian sculptor Wildt had managed to get...

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