NERO AND MUSSOLINI
<>_ SOME RECENT DISCOVERIES. 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? ! asks “Lucio." writing in the "Manchester Guardian." 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 use for the motto which Horace ' gave to Augustan Rome and its first * emperor —"Thou rulcst the world by i bearing thyself humbly toward the | gods”—-and it was with Nero that all! pretence of acceptance of any such! creed departed from the Roman Em-J ptre. .And. whether or not Nero fired jl Rome in another sense Mussolini has! set fire not only to Rome but to his ; "empire" generally. . H
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 3
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183NERO AND MUSSOLINI Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 3
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