ITALY: Bread fot Skeptics

In his own Press Benito Mussolini is the Benevolent Dictator who sees all, knows all, weighs every complaint and is never wrong. Last week Italian papers reached Manhattan with accounts of the "challenge to Mussolini" flung down by an oldster named Pietro Savio of 25 Via Calabria, Rome.

Wrote Pietro Savio to the Dictator: "Duce:

"In your address to the Chamber of Deputies in which you touched on the decrease in the cost of living you said that in Rome one may buy bread for as little as 1.30 lire per kilo [about 5ยข...

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