ENEMIES OF FASCISM
“TOO STUPID TO BE DANGEROUS' MUSSOLINI REAFFIRMS PREVIOUS STATEMENT lU.P A -By Electric Telegraph—Cony nghtl (Received 24th January. 9 a.m.) ROME, 23rd January. In liis speech to farmers at the annual wheat crop competition to-day Signor Mussolini said: “Last September I stated that Fascism’s professional adversaries were too stupid to be dangerous. I reaffirm this in the most explicit terms. “Were I to read to you the contents of the speeches and articles containing the childish prophecies, the absurd lies and the ridiculous hopes which Fascism’s enemies diffuse about Italy, I would make you laugh so loud and long that, despite the barrier of the Alps, many windows in the metropoli? beyond our frontiers would be shatter ed.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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