And as a comparison to the previous post: A caricature of d'Annunzio rallying the Italians to join the war against Austria-Hungary and Germany.
"I wish we had guns of equal caliber to his mouth", says the carabiniere to the bersagliere.
From "Världen sedan 1914" by T. Vogel-Jørgensen (Swedish edition), Natur & Kultur 1939.
The poet, war hero and bonvivant Gabriele d'Annunzio seized a once-in-a-lifetime chance in 1919 to become a dictator of a small city-state at the Adriatic Sea. Fiume (today Rijeka in Croatia) became his playground for a dozen hectic months until the Italian government kicked him out (after a lot of reluctant prodding and poking).
For an amazing example of proto-fascist, anarcho-syndicalist, platonic-idealist propaganda, check his Charter of Carnaro, a draft for an independent Fiume's political constitution.
A cigarette company combines political and commercial propaganda towards the end of WW1 to rally Americans to the war effort and/or make a profit on the patriotic wave. This would intensify during WW2, when smoking increased to never-before seen proportions among both men and women.
