"This kind of thing must end! As, I have abolished strikes, I intend absolutely to stop periodical attempts upon my life. . . , You know that I do not utter words in vain. . . ."
Thus spoke Premier Mussolini six weeks ago when the anarchist Gino Lucetti flung a bomb at him in Rome and missed him (TIME, Sept. 20). Last week II Duce visited Bologna. Amid a teeming throng he opened the new athletic Stadium Littoriale. As he rode away a youth darted from the crowd and fired point blank at...
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