Foreign News: Symbolical Gift

Brother Arnaldo Mussolini, editor of the family newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, had Italians guessing last week at what he meant by this cryptic statement :

"Our Black Shirts in Umbria presented to King Boris of Bulgaria on the occasion of his marriage [to Princess Giovanna of Italy] a simple, brightly polished dagger, taken from the regular arms depot of the Fascist Militia. How full of symbolical significance is this severe and lofty gift!"

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