ITALIAN CROP.
DUCE’S PRIDE
Received January 23, 12.50 p.m. ROME, Jam 22.
In a speech at the distribution of prizes in connection with the annual wheat crop competition, Signor Mussolini said that all the enemies of Fascism were confused and amazed when thev learned the figures of the wheat cro p—almost eighty-one million quintals in a bad season.
Signor Mussolini ridiculed foreign anti-Fascist suggestions that the Italian people faced hunger. He added : “Anti-Fascist ignorance does not disturb us. It is not a bad thing not to be too well-known.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 7
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