INSPIRED BY CAESAR.

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 6

INSPIRED BY CAESAR.

STRENGTH OF MUSSOLINI “I AM FULL OF FIGIIT. A striking insight into Premier Mussolini’s point of view is afforded by an interview secured by the Rome correspondent of the. United Press. The pressman had great difficulty -in directing discussion to attempted assassinations. Signor Mussolini waved a hand with negligent gesture, and s aid: “These are relatively unimportant things to discuss.” When pressed for an answer, he said:.“l do not know what protects me from assassins. Certainly it is something mystic. I shall live on till my works are. finished.”

In reply to a question. Signor Mussolini dismissed democracy as the might wear,’ 1 He added: “We are repeating history nowadays, the history of the Homan Caesars.” “Caesar !” lie exclaimed, “My great iuspfrer ! I have his bust before me always,’’ and he pointed to a bust on the wall lief one liis desk; “I keep that there as a constant inspiration,” continued Signor Mussolini. “Dictators sprang up periodically in those glorious days. Wejneed a, dictator now, to reorganise the nation and’ revivify the State after the wrongs inflicted by democracy. We are doing tilings now. We are march.

ing forward. We are producing. We are building. \Y© are building a steamer which will travel from Italy to New York in. five days. It will be the fastest in the world', and will bo built in such a way that it will; in truth, plough the ocean—cutting a wake that will resemble that of a high-speed motor boat.” Signor Mussolini said that lie hoped soon to abolish press censorship. The dictator rose and stretched his vigorous muscles. “You see me ,to-to-day ?” lm said. “I am robust and

fall of fight. My strength is as great as ever.”