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Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 December 1927, Page 5

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MUSSOLINI ON HIMSELF. WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR ITALY. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyrigh. (Received Thursday, 5.25 a.m.) •LONDON, Wednesday. “Italy is going to be one of the great Powers of the world, and will rise to a prominent position as the holy Roman Empire, but a new Italy, the Italian Empire, is to bo based on a foundation of rock,” said Mussolini, in a striking interview with the “Evening Stan da rd Is ’ ’ Rome correspondent. He likens present-day Italy to an athlete who has been carefully trained, with a body'dean, hardened and nourished, (dean living- and clean thinking, and leading a man ’s life full of love of country and his country’s rulers, “and it is I, Benito Alussolini, who has cared for the moral and physical diet of Italy, who is carefully watching that nothing injurious to my country finds its way into its system. Like a proud parent, 1 am soon going to launch the child nurtured. I am certain the world will credit me for a purified Italy. Many short-sighted people say that the regime is tyranny because L have forced people to do things distasteful. Such is not .tyranny, but the wise government of Fascismo, the greatest blessing that could come to Italy. I challenge the world to take a leaf from my diary. Italy is going to make itself felt. It is no longer a C.'l nation. The name of Alussolini is going to count from end to end of the globe as a symbol of right, fairness and wise government without tyranny. ’ ’