Foreign News: Savage Maxims

Fascismo has its extreme right wing, a group of zealots called "The Savages" in Italian argot. Last fortnight one of these bravos, Signor Mario Carli, set forth in his newspaper, L'Impero, certain maxims:

¶ "Whoever passes a whole night at a gambling table and feels no need the next day to perform at least ten good actions of the first magnitude in order to make up for that indecorous night is unworthy of the name of Fascist gentleman.

¶ "French is a servile language, the use of which should be restricted entirely to hotel waiters.

¶ "Society must be cast in the...

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