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...pacifist, Benito Mussolini. The last chapter ended with II Duce dangling over the cliff, hanging on to neutrality, saying nothing. When would he rouse himself from the meditation into which the mightiest events of his time appeared to have plunged him? Always dynamic, conqueror of many an Ethiopian and Albanian, utterly fearless in denouncing the Masons, a great fellow for jumping over bayonets at Fascist parties (or, better still, having his subordinates do it) how would II Duce measure up to the strain...
...Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There he worked on his illustrations for Tennyson's poems (his musical setting to Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung in a high thin voice, was long a tear-jerker). He was a prodigious letter writer...
TIME, April 17: "Albanian oil is at best of second-rate importance, probably not capable of supplying more than a tenth of Italy's peacetime needs...
...special train from Greece, King Zog, Queen Geraldine, Prince Skander, the King's sisters, and a suite of 110 fellow Albanian refugees arrived in Istanbul, the Queen looking quite recovered (see cut) from her hair-raising flight from the Italian invader. The King piled his family into a hotel and settled down with permission to stay in Turkey as long as he keeps his hands out of political mischief...
With the study of art and archaeology a Albania Greece, Jugoslavia and Italy, is the topic of discussion, the Albanian students Society "Drita" will hold its next meeting Sunday afternoon...