ITALY: Profoundly Humiliated

The Chamber of Deputies passed through two momentous, enlightening hours last week. Benito Mussolini came and spoke from the tribune in reasoned, winning, even humorous fashion.

"Honorable Fascist Deputies," he said, "I am very sorry and profoundly humiliated to announce to you that my speech today will not be as short as mine usually are . . . I need to take the Italian nation and place it in front of itself. . . .

"Besides, after this speech I propose to place upon my tongue not the usual...

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