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Show MUSSOLINI, ITALIAN LEADER! WORLDS YOUNGEST PRgJ T- BY KEA Service. ROME, Nor .. One of the world's youngest political leadern today Is IJenito Mussolini. 3S before the v.ar n leader of Italian Socialists and now head of the most bitter ant! -radical body In the world the FaselstL Mussolini's political career started When ho fought bis way to the leadership lead-ership of the Italian Socialist party He became editor of their newspaper organ "Avanti." That was Immediately Immedi-ately before the outbreak of th world war In 1014. When th' war came German Socialists So-cialists voted ns a bloc to support the t ith-rland In Its mlltnry adventures. W hen Italy entered the lists on trio side of the ullles Mussolini wished his followers to give the same support, sup-port, to Italy. broke vrrn socialists. The Italian Socialists refused. Then Mussolini broke with them. He enlisted In the amy. The ex-Soclallst leader come baek from the front after the armtlstce covered with wounds and m- dals and bearing in his heart a blttrr hatred for the Italian radicals who had failed their country' in Its time of n eed He found Italian industrial and enononiic life upset Unemployment was rife and Italy's great economic safety valve emigration to the T'nlt..l StitM ViiM hn,.n nif ..ff These eondlt'ons had prepared a i fertile spawning ground for bolshe-vlst bolshe-vlst propaganda Agitators. m my of tht-m Inspired by funds sent from ! abroad, were at work in all 1 1 1 Italy'i l industrial centers and were gaining I many converts ORGANIZES FA8CI8OT. Then the germ of th Fasclstl organization or-ganization was born in Mussolini's j mind. He began banding togetheri I his former army comrades in polltl-; leal groups, sworn to oppose the red t flag both at the voting booths and j tnrough ''direct action" with sticks I stones or rifles. By the beginning of this year sfus- sollnl had organized 700.000 young men, all ready to do his bidding. In answer the poll-al extr.-mlsts called m general strT.e. Mussolini I defeated tho strike by putting his 700,000 folowers Into lhe Jobs the' ; Sl rlkers had quit. This Intensified the bitterness between be-tween the bolshevistic elements and: the Fasclstl. Open fighting broke out At the king's request Mussolini this summer demobilized his forees to aid In restoring order. But be did not "domobllzo" his political power if j: , . ' ; ' ' smIbb l BEX no Ml'SMHiXlj When rinmler after prtaj to establish a eabuw: Uut m Mussolllni nim- fonuri a will try to stand br? SI bett r train.-.) politic Mussolini Is the ion ol l worker nut he Ii vrl fe nr an. I literature and sui languages. He h Iwn ? vhw! (Mtl tor, writer of stories, i rS borer 1 he name .f his crful Fasclstl cornea fr j.a tbe LS "fasces" bnndl" which TJ. fr r red to the bundles of ros by the old Roman llctoa j Mussolini's advoct to JtW tain ' lu n far-rearhlsf Hair's International ratlsa UN first stp probably fil gation of th tr.atiM betwi t. nd Jugoslavia parties! Adrlalii coast Muasollal iS to annf-x Malta. It Is rfM vvhlrh would Involve Italy S) or.trov . i with Orti: $M |