Creed

Roman Fascists buried their noses deep amid the pages of the ultra-Fascist news organ, L'Impero. When their heads tipped back to a normal angle, a great light shone in their eyes. Excited, they read to one another a creed just formulated by Signor Marinetti, so called "founder of futurism." It called upon loyal Fascists to profess openly their belief in the following tenets:

1) Italy is divine.

2) The Italians of today are the perfect re-creation of the mighty Romans of the past who conquered the world.

3) The most unworthy Italian is worth 1,000 foreigners.

4) Italian products are the best in the world.

5) Italy has always maintained and shall always maintain an absolute monopoly on creative genius.

6) The Italian landscape is the most beautiful in the world.

7) Every foreigner must enter Italy under a religious spell.

8) The Brenner Pass* is not the goal of Italian expansion but the starting point.

Signor Marinetti further announced that as soon as possible he will create an organization to be known as "The Brenner Guard," which will promote the universal acceptance of his "Eight-barbed Brenner Creed."

*The shortest route between Italy and central Germany. The post-War Italo-Austrian frontier bisects this extremely strategic point.