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STORY ABOUT THE DUCE AND MR. CITRINE £SOO DAMAGES GIVEN (Australian and. N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The “Sunday Express” has apologised to Mr. Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trades Union Congress, and has agreed to pay him £SOO damages, in connection with the Mussolini interview story. In January the “Express” related how Mr. Citrine and Mr. Sassenbach, secretary of the International Federation of Trades Unions, went secretly to Rome to persuade the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, to allow Italy to join the federation. The visitors were said to have harangued Signor Mussolini for exactly 65 minutes and then he talked for exactly 65 minutes. Signor Mussolini concluded: “You have the audacity to ask me to delegate the rule over my work-people to a handful of political fanatics in Amsterdam. You have wasted your time, but I do not know whose money.” Signor Mussolini then rang the bell, the door opened, and the Labour leaders departed. Mr. Citrine denied the report and started the action for damages.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 646, 24 April 1929, Page 9
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