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Their two hearts beating as one, II Duce bade farewell to General Goring, reportedly promised to visit Dictator Hitler in June or July, sat back to await the arrival of two other potent Germans, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath and War Minister Marshal Werner von Blomberg. Quickly commented Mussolini-mouthpiece Editor Virginio Gayda, of Giornale d'Italia: "Nothing in Europe without Italy and Germany. Nothing against Italy and Germany." It looked as though an egg of unusual size were being hatched in the Fascist incubator...
...demonstrate his power, refused arbitration conferences then, and persisted in having his "basic demand" of the closed shop granted before any arbitration began. Instead of the active opposition used in 1934 the owners pursued a policy of watchful waiting, hoping the public would soon sicken of a strike which bade fair to dry up city after city on the Pacific Coast. The public, however, lulled into lethargy by such gilded phrases as "economic royalists", and "well warmed capitalists in well warmed clubs" that were on the lips of the winning candidates in the last election, was slow to force action...
Five minutes later, over the paper's dying embers, he slowly twirled a crystal ball and bade the reporters concentrate, which alien operation was performed only with the most intense effort. But after several moments of entranced gazing into the Garden of Allah (which appeared to be in the South End) Mogul began to whisper, his brows furrowed with concentration...
...revolutionist at heart. In his new fear Premier Blum finally announced that, although French police would not arrest occupiers of factories, they would suppress any disorder in the streets. That night jumpy Socialist Salengro, Minister of Interior, called to Paris steel-helmeted gardes mobiles with rifles in their hands, bade them keep gimlet eyes on his own Socialist followers and the Communists in the radical "Red Ring" districts around Paris...
...Gracefully ending a memorable chapter of New Deal history, the President had Donald Richberg to luncheon, bade him Godspeed back to private life...