"Never Wrong!"

Journalists in Italy are happy--if they are 100% Fascist zealots. Their profession has been violently transformed into a mission. They are hot-gospelers for the State. picked for their ability to believe and act in harmony with the slogan printed everywhere, "Il Duce is never wrong!" Once an editor, II Duce realizes that the details of his press domination are best kept secret from countries in which journalism is still a free profession. Last week Manhattan's anti-Fascist daily La Stampa Libera was able to publish copies of a smuggled series of daily orders released to the Press of Italy last summer from the Dictator's press bureau whose head is now his handsome son-in-law. Count Galeazzo Ciano. To a Fascist the orders would seem merely right & proper. To U. S. newspaperdom, resentful of even the slightest shadow of encroachment upon its freedom by the NRA, they seemed the acme of outrageous despotism.

Excerpts:

P:"It is earnestly requested that no mistake shall be made in the spelling of the name of the Hungarian Secretary of Commerce. Comments by foreign papers on his visit in Rome should be quoted at length.

P:"Do not advertise the success of the loan in the United States and do not speak of America's inflation policy. P:"Reproduce extensively the comments of the foreign Press calling attention to the Tightness of the course followed by Italy. P:"Reprint from The Daily Mail the article Will France Go Fascist? by Huddleston. P:"Do not make up the paper in such a way as to have all the reports of accidents and crimes follow one another, for it is not desirable to fill half-pages with catastrophic news. P:"Warning is hereby given to abstain from using the words 'supreme hier archies,' as the party has only one: Il Duce. P:"In announcing the celebration to be performed on the arrival of the Atlantic flyers in Rome the Carlino made use, in yesterday's number, of the word 'apotheosis.' This adjective is too extravagant, because the arrival of the flyers is several days off, and also because up to that date the event must be kept within reasonable bounds. P:"An article study on the depression has appeared in the Regime. It is not timely. The papers should concern themselves rather with the signs of recovery. The depression will be examined and studied when it has disappeared. "You are reminded that all the news sent by the press office should be enlarged upon and used as a starting point for comments, italics, etc.; but seldom is to be reprinted integrally. Yesterday's article in Carlino is excellent and its publication timely. Congratulations have been directly extended to Trompee, its author."

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