Sunday 4 March 2012

Speech in Rome, January 22, 1939

To the Victors of the Battle for Grain

By Benito Mussolini

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Our rural policy follows this course: reclaim the land, increase income, improve the lot of farmers and farm workers in Italy, maintaining a strong peasantry which has pride of life on earth, to work in Italy and Italian lands in Africa, to preserve and pass on the intrinsic virtues of the Italian race, and to defend with arms this land which is now identified historically, physically, and morally with the Fatherland.