Foreign News: Perfect Militiamen

Like an extraordinary and super-legal bodyguard the Fascist Militia bristles round Signor Mussolini, a band of tried and loyal men, armed, and conscious that their one duty is to protect, obey and follow II Duce. Last week the code of this arch-Fascist volunteer corps was embodied into a "Decalogue for the Perfect Fascist Militia-man":

I. Remember that a Fascist, and especially a militiaman, must not believe in perpetual peace.

II. If you are punished it is because you deserve it.

III. One's country may be served even by standing guard over a two-gallon tin of...

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