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Rome last week was a swirling, roaring, giddy spot. Balbo was coming home. Banners and draperies hung from every balcony. Streets were festooned with lanterns. Billboards and telephone poles were plastered with pictures of Italo Balbo and his officers. Electric signs blazed the proud boast: "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached." Special trains, with cheap excursion fares for the occasion, streamed in with thousands and thousands of countryfolk from all over Italy. The fever of excitement blazed higher and higher as the Balbo armada covered its final...
IRANI nosed over in the harbor of Horta "by an error of maneuvring," reported Balbo. One of its officers was killed, second to die in the second crackup since the squadron set out from Italy for the U. S. The accident was an excuse for General Balbo to decline a wearying round of ceremonies at Lisbon. However, he did find time for a bullfight in his honor, which he enjoyed so much that he gave his cigaret case to one matador, his revolver to another. In return he got a bull...
From Lisbon the armada flew non-stop to its glorious homecoming. Practically all of Rome and its hordes of visitors flocked to Fiumicino Airport at the mouth of the muddy Tiber, 15 mi. outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood...
...General Italo Balbo's 24 seaplanes had been not Italian but Japanese; if they had flown not across the Atlantic but eastward across the Pacific; if they had landed for a -goodwill" visit not at Chicago's lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry...
...Shediac, N. B. en route with his seaplane armada back to Italy, General Italo Balbo cut with silver shears a red-white-&-green ribbon across what formerly was Pleasant Street, where he first set foot on Canadian soil. It became Balbo Avenue...