FASCISM’S ACHIEVEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 269, 28 October 1932, Page 9

FASCISM’S ACHIEVEMENTS

MUSSOLINI’S SURVEY. EPOCH IN ITALIAN HISTORY. London, October 27. Signor Mussolini, in an article in the “Daily Telegraph” on ten years of Fascism, says the regime is not satisfied with the mere making of laws, but has a deeper responsibility. It has permeated the life of the people and created an epoch in Italian history whose influence will he felt by succeeding generations; but if he wanted to make a moral budget it' would be sufficient to point to the increase in wheat production by 76,151,000 quintals, thus raising the yield from four to six quintals per acre. “We could say we have made Italy almost independent of foreign wheat. We could enumerate vast public works and great reforms. We have no strikes, but we have a producing, industrious working class. There is not a single State in the whole world which can point to equal achievement. In all of the State’s activities Fascism is destined to live, and it is a living spirit, like the spirits of Cromwell and Washington”