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| "Italy is proud of the message Fascism has for the world & every effort has been expended to convey that message at the Italian Pavilion, located at the south end of the Avenue of Flags. Progress is the keynote of modern Italy & the long & romantic history of the Italian peninsula pales before Italy's plans for the future. The very design of the building is symbolic of the epoch-making flight of General Italo Balbo, who led an armada of seaplanes from Italy to the Fair. Italy's remarkable achievements in engineering, physics, medicine, geography, astronomy, agriculture, shipping and aviation from the time of the Caesars to the present day are dramatically told in 450 exhibits, while additional exhibits explain the huge reclamation projects through which Premier Benito Mussolini hopes to "reclaim the land, the man & the nation." - from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Guidebook |
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