"Tell the Truth"

Benito beamed at foreign journalists who entertained him at the Foreign Press Club in Rome. "You can be very useful to the Government and to Italy," purred the Dictator. "I only ask you one thing-- to tell the truth* when you are informing your papers of what you see around you."

Mussolini was once a journalist himself; he founded and edited the Milan Popolo d'ltalia in favor of Italy's intervention in the War.

*Ever since the Fascisti seized power in 1922, foreign journalists in Italy have been comforted by the knowledge that their despatches would be delayed by Mussolini's hidden censorship only when they said something that the black-shirted officials might resent. The only foreign journalists in Italy to be molested have been those whose opinions of Fascismo were not friendly--just as in Italy only anti-Fascist papers have been burned, only anti-Fascist editors have been beaten, only hostile plants have been wrecked.