THE NEW ROME

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1932, Page 14

THE NEW ROME

MUSSOLINI'S PLANS

Home, ■which was not built in one iflay, is to be rebuilt in five years, for Mussolini has said so. He does not intend to destroy the Eome of Caesar or the Borne of the Popes; but he intends to remove the slums which clutter the city and conceal much of the architecture of the two older cities, says the "Montreal Daily Star." This decision to rebuild the city was arrived at by Mussolini without the aid of any royal commissions or other committees. Mussolini consulted some architects and administrators to give him a plan of a new Eome. The plan was to be completed in six months, and it was completed. Then tho Duce issued his decree. In addition to a vast scheme of slum clearance the plan includes underground railways and underground roads. Motor . speedways will cleave the city north to south and east to west. Parks will surround it in a belt and this belt will be connected with the circuses of Caesar in the centre of the city. Borne is to be made into a seaport by the excavation of a canal 15 miles to the sea, and a great harbour is to be built near the. city. The present railway station is to be razed to the ground and two new ones will take its place. Mussolini realises that Eome, with no industries of her own, must depend almost wholly for her well-being on tourists. For that reason alone, if for no other, he has arranged to preserve all that is ancienj and honourable and to destrpy;-aU-"i»at'is^mer©ly; old and-ugly-