ERUOPEAN LUNACY
"For the first time in European history, a revolution of the Right had been effected with the apparatus asso'ciated with revolutions of the Left. That was the distinctive qiiality of Fascism. Like the Communists in Russia, Mussolini installed the dictatorship of an armed party; and Italy, where arms were held in high respect, enjoyed the experiment. Most Europeans were habituated by the war to State omnipotence ; and Mussolini had managed to remake the State after their own image. It promised an exciting age of rousing spectacles, of puhlic works, and of bright nniforms replacing the drab costume of democraey. To European eyes Italy receded once again heneath a modernised exajnple of those tyrannies with which it was so long familiar; and the splendid gesture of the Duce failed to awe moie sceptieal observers. For when he visited an Allied capital that year with the full panoply of iron mouth and rolling eye, Mr Asquith asked the Prime Minister what he thought of Mussolini. 1 A lunatic/ said Mr Bpnar Law/'— Mr PkUip
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 4
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174ERUOPEAN LUNACY Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 4
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