FASCIST ITALY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 246, 16 September 1929, Page 7

FASCIST ITALY.

MUSSOLINI’S DICTATORSHIP. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) ROME, Sept. 14. Signor Mussolini, in an important speech at Palazzo, Venctia, dealing with recent Cabinet changes, explained that the Fascist Militia Police Council and the State Court of Accounts remained under his control.

“Never before have I felt more strongly Fascism’s reality by which the State is centred in one person who is the complete master. Some ‘idolators’ call Italy a Dictatorship. We acknowledge that it is a Dictatorship lying in the political, moral, and intellectual force of the man who exercises it and the objects at which he aims. That is a fact and it is a necessity.” The Duce added that reports that the Fascist .Party was suppressing itself were grotesque, and denounced attackers who were accusing the I ascist leaders of dishonesty. On tlio contrary they were deserving of all esteem Signor Mussolini declared that Italian exiles were drowning themselves in ridicule. “I have often asked myself whether an amnesty can be granted such a herd of sheep afflicted with such mortifying stupidity, or criminals responsible for bombing Italian women and children,” the Duce concluded. Signor Mussolini has appointed the followin c Under-Secretaries and Ministers {or tho departments, tho portfolios of which ho formerly held personally :-Signor Grandi, Foreign Affairs; General Do Bono, Colonies; General Gazzera, War; Admiral Sinanni, Marine; General Balbo, Air; .Signor Bottai Corporations; Signor Bianchi, irublic Works. Signor Mussolini retains the Premiership and tho Ministry of tho Interior.