My autobiography

Transcriber’s Notes
Corrected text is marked with a dotted underline. A list of corrections can be found at the end of this eBook.
From a photograph by A. Badodi, Milan.
MUSSOLINI.
In his office at the Palazzo Chigi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When listening intently this is his attitude and expression.
Benito Mussolini
With a Foreword by Richard Washburn Child Former Ambassador to Italy
Illustrated
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1928
COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Copyright, 1928, by Curtis Publishing Co. Printed in the United States of America
It is far from my purpose to elaborate the material in this book, to interpret it, or to add to it.
With much of the drama it contains I, being Ambassador of the United States at the time, was intimately familiar; much of the extraordinary personality disclosed here was an open book to me long ago because I knew well the man who now, at last, has written characteristically, directly and simply of that self for which I have a deep affection.