Caetani's Farewell

In a farewell address in Manhattan to the Italy-America Society, Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., who is returning home next month, stoutly defended the Fascist regime in Italy. He spoke of what had been accomplished: balanced budgets, reduction of internal indebtedness, prosperous industries, etc., and said that the Government was arranging to redeem $15,000,000 worth of bonds falling due in the U. S. in 1925. Said he: "We--that is, Mussolini and his faithful followers, including the most patriotic elements of Italy--are going to see that this work is carried out to a finish. After all, Fascismo has caused a revolution, a spiritual revolution, and it intends to defend it as every revolution has had to defend itself. Bolshevism, or any of its attenuated forms, is not going to set foot again in Italy and I hope the world may soon be free of that nightmare. There is no reason to be duly alarmed by radicalism."