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Show PREDICTS FALL OF ITALY'S BOSS Mussolini Bit Off More Than He Can Chew, Says Observer. BY WILLIAM BIRD Special Cable Dispatch to The suuid- arfl-Examiner. (Copyright, 1922, by Standard-Examiner.) ROME. Nov. 4. Within a very few wetks Benito Mussolini will realize he has mnde the mistake of his lire when he accepted the premiership and Installed Ihe Fascist! government. li s power as chief of the military malcontents was absolute and ri could hays dominated nny other government gov-ernment as leader of the. most powerful pow-erful opposition difficult job ahead. His situation today is much the ian B as that of a literary critic wno would accept the i fiallenge of attoth r author to "write a better book yotir-self." yotir-self." Because a great critic seldom makes a great author, so the Fas-cistI leader will find that rrovernlng Is unite different from criticising. Mussolini's Mus-solini's chief opponents if he InslBte on retaining power for long, will be the Easclstl themselves This gre;i? body of young men bent on sweeping aside all old political methods and awakening Italy, will discover that , Mussolini Is held prisoner of the; hurcaucratlc red tape just as much as any former premier. By making administrative reform the chief factor in his program Mus solini reveals that he knows where, the greatest difficulty lies. But here: again criticism is easier than accomplishment accom-plishment and to suppose, that : Fascist! Fas-cist! government can slay the hydra-headed hydra-headed bureaucracy before the patience pa-tience of the rank and file of the! movement is exhausted is to endow it with super-human powers which it does not possess. MY JOIN SOCIALISTS. The present government Is only, transitional and doomed to be overthrown over-thrown by the Fascist! membership' themselves, who by that time may be allied with the Socialists. This Is, ot i ours- an apparent, paradox but the- Faxr-isti contrary to, the common belief, everywhere, arc I not reactionary theorists but merely' 'enthusiastic poetic young men bent' on breaking through a maze of hampering ham-pering traditions Into a brighter and more beautiful form of society. |