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Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 12

So Signor Mussolini is not satisfied with-ia mere Premiership, and' rather fancies himself as a candidate for the Presidential chair of an Italian 'Republic. .One of his creatures, Signor dei Vecchi, a Fascist! . Minister and otherwise a big: maccaroni of the blackshirt pudding, has openly stated the desire of the Fascists for "an Italian Empire -without^the House of Savoy"—quite a delicate paraphrase for one of his garb. Mussolini's recent refusal of " the King's offer of the Grand Cordon of the Annunziata —though possibly dictated by a merely instinctive aversion to the ropy title of the decorationhas served to strengthen the general suspicion that mischief of some sort is j afoot. Hence some uneasiness; .the feeling is that a king is at least pr- J ilfiUnentaL—JLaJaOUT Prfta* iSfeTvice.