TOPICS OF THE DAY
Nero and Mussolini “ Can there be any special significance in the discovery at Rome just at this time of the walL of Nero’s circus, in which so many Christians were martyred and in which Nero himself loved to make public appearances ? Perhaps it is not surprising that it. is to Nero that our cartoonists and those of other countries have gone for a link with Mussolini. The bulky figure, the thick neck, the facial expression suggested the comparison between the two, and Mussolini's efforts with the microphone may be compared with Nero’s on the lyre. Mussolini, it may be guessed, has had little urs for the motto which Horace gave to Augustan Rome and its first emperor—’ Thou rulest the world by bearing thyself humbly toward the gods ’—and it was with Nero that all preference of acceptance of any such creed departed from the Roman Empire. And. whether or not Nero fired Rome, in another sense Mussolini has set fire not only to Rome but to his ‘ empire ’ generally."—“ Lucio,” in the Manchester Guardian.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 4 February 1941, Page 4
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179TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 4 February 1941, Page 4
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