Benito Mussolini, hale and hearty and fresh from the recent Fascista victory in the General Election (TIME, April 14), was received with every mark of wild enthusiasm by the Romani, when he returned to the Eternal City from Milan.
Outside the Palazzo Chigi (Italian Foreign Office) a crowd estimated at 100,000 assembled to do honor to Il Duce (the leader) of Facism. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome, attempted to address the crowd, but it shouted him down with cries of "Basta, vattene!" which, translated into, the vernacular, means "Enough, beat it!"
Then...
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