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...should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries of War, Navy, and Air, amalgamated in a single. Ministry of Defense. The Air Minister, plump, bearded Italo Balbo, who has listened so patiently to so many Mussolini speeches, will probably receive an important consolation prize. Minister of the Navy Giuseppe Sirianni and Minister of War Pietro Gazzera will probably be retired. Because the Italian Red Cross has grown so great, it is likely that it will be reorganized...
...Italians then moved off in a body down the hall, summoned by Il Duce who had already heard of the rumpus and had at once called up General Balbo from Rome. General Balbo immediately demanded either a formal apology from Socialist Renaudel, who again refused to apologize, or the ousting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from the premises. It was thereupon ousted by Secretary General of the League of Nations Sir Eric Drummond...
...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...
...have tried to attract men and put them to the test. There is already a ruling class of excellent minds; for example: Grandi, Balbo, Bottai and Arpinati...
...Italo Balbo, who looks enough like Dino Grandi to be his twin, is Minister of Air. Arpinati is Under Secretary of the Interior...