INSPIRED BY CAESAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 4

INSPIRED BY CAESAR

STRENGTH OF MUSSOLINI LONDON, Nov. 10. A striking insight into Signor Mussolini's point of view is afforded by an interview secured by the Rome correspondent of the United Press. The interviewer had great difficulty in directing discussion to attempted assassinations. Signor Mussolini waved a hand with negligent gesture and said: "These aro relatively unimportant things to discuss." When pressed for an answer, he said: "I do not know what protects me from assassins. Certainly it is something mystic. I shall live on till my works tire finished." In reply to a question, Signor Mussolini dismissed democracy as the "gorgeous trappings a rich nation might wear." He added: "We are repeating history nowadays, the history of the Roman Caesars." "Caesar." ho exclaimed, "My great inspirer! I have his bust before me always." and he pointed to a bust on the wall before his desk. "I keep that there as a constant inspiration," continued Signor Mussolini. "Dictators sprang up periodically in those glorious days. We need a dictator now to reorganise the nation and revivify tho State after tho wrongs inflicted by democracy. We are doing things now. We are marching forward. We are producing. Wo are building. « "We are building a steamer which will travel from Italy to New York in live days. It will be the ,I'astest in tho world, and will be built in such a way that it will, in truth, plough the ocean —cutting a wake that will resemble that of a high-speed motorboat." Signor Mussolini said that he hoped soon to abolish press censorship. The dictator rose and stretched his vigorous muscles. "You see me today?" he said. "I am robust and full of light. My strength is as great as ever."