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"He sleeps eight hours a night. For ten years he has not taken a drop of alcohol. He does not smoke. He regards alcohol and tobacco as entirely unsuitable for people who have hard mental work to do."
Complacent, Lord Rothermere added: "His [Mussolini's] opinion [of alcohol and tobacco] confirms my own experience and practice, for, out of regard to the heavy responsibilities resting on me, I have been for some time past a teetotaler and a nonsmoker. ... I am proud of the fact that The Daily Mail was the first newspaper in England, and in the world outside of Italy, to give the public the right estimate of the soundness and durability of Mussolini's work."
*Il Duce has memorably declared (TIME, Jan. 31, 1927) "Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quietly turn around to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess ot Liberty."