ITALY: Mussolinia

Patriotic Frenchmen are always vexed to remember that good Fascists insist on calling the hind side of Mont Blanc Monte Mussolini. Last week Il Duce entered geography again. As part of a really praiseworthy Fascist irrigation scheme 25,000 acres of Sardinian swamp land have been drained, restored to cultivation, settled with 2,000 immigrants from the mainland. Last week this new land was formally incorporated as a comune (township) invested by gracious permission of II Duce with the imposing title of Comune di Mussolinia di Sardegna.

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