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Show Rome Celebrates 2676th Birthday Homo. Tho celebration Saturd ot Homes 2C7Ctn birthday was pc Imps tho most solemn' In tho lo: history of tho ctornnl city. Proml Mussolini promulgated a decroo c tabllshcd April 21, as Laborday 1 stead of May 1, and thus tho trac tlonal date of tho city's foundatl bocomcs a national holiday. A fc ture of tho ceremony was the admt Istrntlon ot the Fnsclstl oath to t national militia. In this city tho pi mier hmself reviewed tho phalanx) Tho troops marched along the arc cologlcal promonado passing t colessoum, the Itoma forum, tho ar ot Constantino nnd the Appian wc A trlbuno had been orectod for mei bers ot tho diplomatic corps nt vantago point on the way In whl Ambassador Child and his wlto h reserved places. When Proml Mussolini appeared, tho mllta s luted by extending their right an In tho ancient Homo fashion nnd ahsoluto loyalty to the nation and the iron disclpllno of fascism. T oath wns dictated by tho command of tho Roman legion, who wns at tloned In a captlvo balloon. |