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...Bellonte together realized no more than $100,000 from their 1930 trans-atlantic flight and all that went with it. According to Variety's Paris correspondence: "They came home tired and disillusioned. French Government carried them on the hip for $300,000. No way to get that back." Balbo's Squadron. Into the little harbor of Bolama on the west coast of Africa last week glided 14 Savoia-Marchetti flying boats. Led by Italy's 34-year-old air minister, General Italo Balbo, they had flown in four stages from Orbetello, near Rome. Now mechanics swarmed over...
...airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must be considered from an international standpoint." Dr. Hugo Eckener and General Italo Balbo, Italian Air Minister, likewise pleaded for close international co-operation to develop air navigation. A proposal of the Swiss delegates: that European nations divert part of the government subsidies which they now receive for aviation, to a pool for the development of international airlines...
...Triumvirs remaining from the original Quadrumvirate are: General Emilio De Bono, Minister of Colonies; General Italo Balbo, Minister of Aviation; Count Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to Vatican City...
...Three Quadrumvirs. Three members of the famed Quadrumvirate who strode with II Duce on the March to Rome in 1922, when he seized power, were given Cabinet posts last week. General Emilio De Bono, veteran of the Lybian and World Wars received the important Ministry of Colonies. General Italo Balbo, the leading Italian authority on military aviation, a clever flyer, a keen observer who visited the U. S. last year, was made Minister of Aviation. Michele Bianchi, one of Signor Mussolini's oldest friends and colleague of the days when they both edited Socialist newspapers, received the Ministry...
...concensus of reports to date: 1) During November, Undersecretary for Aviation Italo Balbo and General Emilio De Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, perfected the details of the plot. (They with Signer Mussolini led the famed march on Rome [1922] which brought Fascismo into power.) 2) A letter from General De Bono to Secretary Balbo concerning the plot fell into the hands of General Pietro Badoglio, the Army Chief of Staff, and a staunch, loyal monarchist. 3) General Badoglio promptly called a cavalry regiment and two artillery regiments to Rome, ordered them to guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family...