Foreign News: Sack Suit & Spy

Newsfolk in Italy work under the only Dictator who knows journalism's every twist and straightaway. In personal letters to friends abroad last week Rome correspondents built up a backlog of excited rumor against which Il Duce's way with the Press blazed with startling highlights.

Remembering how Cub Reporter Benito Mussolini once lived in fear of being fired by a capricious editor, the Dictator with his 1927 Charter of Labor protected the status of all Italian employes with a nationwide, mandatory system of labor contracts and gave extra protection to working journalists.

Today the editor...

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