FASCISTS’ TENTH YEAR

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18797, 19 November 1932, Page 12 (Supplement)

FASCISTS’ TENTH YEAR

Praise for the achievements of the Fascist regime in Italy and an Invitation to the scholars, scientists and artists of the world to come to see the transformations wrought were given by Senator Guglieimo Marolno In a radio address last month.

Senator Marconi’s speech was made during a special world-wide programme celebrating the 10th anniversary of the march on Rome of Benito Mussolini’s Fascists.

The inventor of wireless spoke In English, and his address later wet •read for the benefit of listeners all over the world.

Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer, conducted an orchestra playing a number of his own works during the broadcast. Address by MaroonF. The Senator’s speech, as taken down here, was as follows: On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Fascist regime, the Royal Academy of Italy, whose members include eminent representatives of literature science and art, all unite to convey to the scholars, the scientists and the artists of Ihe world a warm and cordial Invitation lo visit Rome, the Eternal City, which, thanks to Fascist rule and effort, is assuming once again somethin!? of the majesty and splendour which characterised it in the days of Augustus. Aware of what modern civilisation owes to its Roman origin, every Scholar will he keenly Interested to see Ihe many monuments which in the past decade have been either brought to light or restored. Amongst these are the Temple of Vesta and the Tomb of the Sciplos, a long series of structures of republican and imperial periods the Capitoline Hill and the Tarpelan Rock, now unobstructed by the ugly buildings which formerly surrounded

Modern Improvements Stressed.

By the side of these Impressive monuments of the past stand the no less impressive achievements of the present—a fine new road, huilt where a whole congested area was demolished, now Joins the heart of Rome with the Alban Hills, 12 miles away. There are new museums, wide streets, spacious and healthy dwellings for the people and a new motor road, unequalled in its kind, which affords rapid and easy access- to the new Roman Lido, and thus brings back to the oity its ancient sea coast. In the Roman Campagna, which, until a few years ago, lay waste, fertile fields have been restored with bright and fine homesteads. n

On crossing the peninsula, every visitor will have occasion to note that not only in Rome but everywhere else on Italian soil further evidence of our ancient history has been discovered, and laid bare before your eyes to prove the continuity of our civilisation and history through thousands of years. Nor will you fail to observe, if you chance to linger for a while in the large cities of Genoa, Venice, Trieste, our great seaboards, centuries old, and Milan, Turin, Bologna, Palermo, which

Achievements Praised by Senator Guglielmo Marconi. Pictures Gains to the People.

them, the four republican temples, 1 even more emphatically reveal the new the Forum of Caesar, the Mausoleum | Impulse given to the oountry. of Augustus and the Mausoleum of the Julian Family, the Temple of Mars, the Theatre of Maroellus and the Circus Maximus

Highways Are Excellent. Everywhere you will And excellent highways and railroads-, new bridges and aqueducts, factories and loft yards, fine public buildings, modern sohoois, model hospitals, large and well-equipped gymnasiums, and at the seaside and on the mountains, welfare fares for the physioal and moral good of the young and of the working classes.

Large waste lands have been reclaimed and cultivated and many bare mountainsides reforestrated. Capital and labour work together harmoniously in a country where e-trikes and lockouts have beoome unknown. Everywhere the visitor will see the signs of national regeneration. The exhibition of the Fascist movement will prove to you the intensity of the effort which had to be sustained and the sacrifloes which were cheerfully made for the renovation of practically all political and social institutions of the country.

The Royal Academy of Italy feel* sure that this invitation will be received by all thinking men In the spirit of oordialllty in which it is made. The Italian people will deeply value your visit, while on your part you will certainly appreciate, above everything else, the new spirit which the force of a new idea, brought into notion by a truly great man, has suooeeded la arousing throughout Italy. I-