ITALY: Creed

Roman Fascists buried their noses deep amid the pages of the ultra-Fascist news organ, L'Impero. When their heads tipped back to a normal angle, a great light shone in their eyes. Excited, they read to one another a creed just formulated by Signor Marinetti, so called "founder of futurism." It called upon loyal Fascists to profess openly their belief in the following tenets:

1) Italy is divine.

2) The Italians of today are the perfect re-creation of the mighty Romans of the past...

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