MUSSOLINI’S WAY
MAN OF MYSTERY. The following story is told of Signor Mussolini: — “Half a. dozen diplomats of the greater States had to meet Mussolini in council. We were all chatting together when he made his entrance. Someone on the other side of the door by which we had entered opened it with a rattle and made a hissing sound. “The door remained ajar and we all looked at it open-mouthed. There was I a deathly silence. ‘Good morning, gentlemen.’ We looked around. “Mussolini was standing behind us, motionless. There was no sign of a door on that side of the room. There he was, smiling slightly, his eyes gleaming, his hand tucked into his breast-pocket, his pose sphinx-like. “At the conclusion of our statements he said: ‘I thank you, gentlemen. You shall have my answer at 10 minutes to four this afternoon.’ “Three-fifty saw us back at the apartment of the morning. Again the door was opened from without, again a hissing sound proceeded from the corridor beyond. “This lime we were not to be taken in so easily; every one of us turned from the door and looked in the other direction, ‘Good afternoon, gentlemen.’ We squn round. Mussolini was smiling at us from the door!”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1936, Page 2
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