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...threat of a duel was injected by General Balbo who lisped fiercely: "I consider this a personal insult which Signor Costamagna is at liberty to reply to in his own manner...
...Utter Failure!" Stepping out of the seaplane Italy's round-eyed, bearded young Air Minister, General Italo Balbo, made straight for the Conference. A soldier, a fighter, he came to speak for Benito Mussolini who had just ousted his suave, diplomatic Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and occupied the Italian Foreign Office himself. Striding into the Conference bearded General Balbo lisped...
...General Balbo, bursting into the room, found his compatriot Italian Deputy Carlo Costamagna reviling and reviled by French Deputy Pierre Renaudel. It appeared that Fascist Costamagna had been fulsomely lauding the Fascist regime when stocky Socialist Renaudel burst out, "Yours is a country without a free parliament, and there is no justice where liberty does not exist...
...Italian Air Force has ever since had its eye on the record of 408.8 m.p.h. held by Lieut. George H. Stainforth. To attack that record, the air force developed a Macchi seaplane powered by two Fiat 1,500 h.p. engines in tandem. To fly it. Air Minister Italo Balbo delegated a new pilot named Neri, a minuscule man whose exploits since he joined the force a short time ago earned him the nickname "Death Cheat...
...Congress voted to make Rome a clearing house for oceanic flying weather data, elected General Balbo president, chose Manhattan for the next meeting, got medals from Premier Mussolini, adjourned...