Show IDEA OF FREE TRADE pointing out what fascist italy aad h ad done in the last year to better its situation dictator mussolini boasted particularly about the decrease in wheat imports which he has brought about by raising duties and pledging millers to use 95 per cent of native grain wheat imports into italy for the five I 1 months beginning with july 1932 he said were approximately 17 1 7 of the imports during the same period in 1930 he announced that the government will continue to control the wheat market until all danger from foreign competition has been removed the statement is particularly interesting because only a few days previously the duce had expressed himself with his usual emphasis in favor of international ter national free trade it is a queer idea of free trade that when put into practice imposes a virtually prohibitive duty upon a commodity for the purpose of protecting home industry |