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...facing toward Yugoslavia where danger seemed small indeed this week. Commanding a southern defense corps headquartered in Sicily was Marshal Emilio De Bono, a white-bearded little Fascist oldster who planned and provoked the Ethiopian War, then botched it. Commanding in Libya was that "accomplished ruffian," Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Libya's Governor...
...press began to bridle, pointing out: 1) that Britain was trying to strangle Italian trade, but could not do so because Italy could carry her commerce in her own bottoms; 2) that Britain was trying to make Italy appear to be an aggressor in the Mediterranean. Air Marshal Italo Balbo's newspaper, Corriere Padano, tried to reverse the process. "The Allies have an urgent need to regain prestige they have lost," said Corriere Padano. "Can the Mediterranean supply that need?" Corriere Padano even went so far as to declare that Italy was becoming "ever more impatient ... to throw...
...called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved to the U. S. He married Mrs. Madalyn Nichols Taylor of New Orleans, settled down in Manhattan, where he did some radio broadcasting, and in Connecticut, where he tinkered...
...Corriere Padano of Ferrara, a minor Fascist organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...
...Fascist militiamen, who formed the regime's counter-revolutionary force, was suddenly reduced from eight lire (40?) a day to one lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi to a lira. Such dissident Fascists as Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, and Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Ambassador to Great Britain, have lined up more or less openly with the Royal Family against such Axis Fascists as Count Ciano, Achille Starace and Roberto Farinacci without being castor oiled. The venerable Marshal Pietro Badoglio has long been identified as the King...