MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. T.L.S., Mussolini, one page, 4to, Rome, 4^th July 1929, to all the Ministries of the Cabinet, in Italian. Mussolini writes on the subject of the regulations for the passive air defence of the national territory and sends his correspondents a preliminary copy of Regolamento per la Difesa Contro-Aerei passive del Territorio Nazionale, explaining that the executive provisions for its implementation are the constitution of the central inter-ministerial body, the determination of the basic elements for the compilation of the passive defence project, the coordination of passive defence with active defence and the financial burden. With blank integral leaf. Together with a printed 8vo copy of the pamphlet Regolamento per la Difesa Contro-Aerei passive del Territorio Nazionale, marked Very Confidential, the Italian text comprising thirty-nine articles across ten chapters, dated Rome, February 1929. Signed by Mussolini to a title page in his capacity as head of the government and president of the Supreme Defence Commission, beneath printed text stating that the regulations were approved in Rome in May 1929. Bound in the original blue printed wrappers and with a red ink annotation in an unidentified hand to the front cover. Some light age wear and minor staining and the letter with a paperclip rust stain to the upper left corner. About VG, 2