Foreign News: Press On!

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dish up again for the thousandth time the mystery of the Archduke Rudolph at Mayerling,*; and others reprint to the point of nausea stories about the American colored dancer, Josephine Baker, the so-called 'Black Venus.' All this is harmful to the education of the masses. All this is worthy of the old regimes.

"Our editors must ignore these things and press on to the goals of Fascism! The stronger Fascism becomes the greater will be the inevitable reaction in the anti-Fascist world which will be angered by the necessity of acknowledging that once again it is Italy which has given a new order of the day in political and social advance."

^{—Signor Benito Mussolini's two principal titles are Il Capo
del Governo, The Head of the State, and Il Duce del Fascismo, The
Leader of the Fascist Party.
^{*His Royal Highness, only son of Emperor
Franz Josef, was found reclining on a couch with his mistress, at the
imperial hunting lodge of Mayerling —he with his brains blown out by a
revolver; she, strangled. No satisfactory explanation of this state of
affairs has ever been offered. Two years ago a romantic Austrian clerk,
Ewald Laumann, visited the Archduke's mistress' grave, strewed thereon
an armful of roses, then blew out his brains (TIME Sept. 13, 1926).}}