Peace, Paix, Friede, Pace

To suspicious French audiences, to men and women who have been told by their press a thousand times that he is THE ENEMY, Signore Benito Mussolini was personally introduced last week by the talking cinema.

In their own language Il Duce told the French that he is not what they think, repeating the "Peace Speech" which he made in English on New Year's Day in 1931 to the Anglo-Saxon world (TIME, Jan. 12).

In League of Nations circles, where such things are watched closely, Il Duce was promptly hailed last week as a great innovator: the first statesman to go over the heads of a foreign government and press, talking Peace directly to a hostile foreign people.

As Innovator Mussolini also speaks German, he can put on virtually a Continental one-man-show, pledging in four languages to keep his momentous New Year's resolution: "Italy will never take the initiative in any war!"

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