Oh, we'll march to Paris
And chop off the head
Of Marianne,
Marianne,
Marianne!
We'll chop off her head,
We'll chop off her head,
And lay,
And lay,
And lay it at our
Duce's feet!
Reports reached Paris last week that the little lads of the Fascist Balilla (Italy's militarized Boy Scouts) now chant this brisk, stirring air as they march along shouldering small bolt-action rifles of the latest Italian Army type. To cut off the head of Marianne is, of course, to decapitate France. The fact that France and Italy quarreled at the London...
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