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...brown eyes were those of Bella, a Swiss cow who is the pet & pride of President Hainisch. For years she has been the bovine sultana of his model dairy farm in Lower Austria. Cartoonists draw the President in company with Bella more often than they picture him alone. Yet last week Dr. Hainisch took firmly away from Bella with his own hand a small bell of solid gold which he had hung, two years ago, about her neck...
While the bell swung and tinkled beneath Bella's placid, munching mouth it signalized that no other cow in all Austria gave so much milk as she. Last week President Hainisch braved the sad, brown eyes of Bella and took away her bell because he had had tidings of a cow named Maria, owned by one Herr Kraft of Graz. This rival cow,, this upstart Maria, has produced this year 2,400 gallons of milk and bettered the record of Bella by several foaming pails...
...Liberia Bella, you are trampled, you are ravished! . . . Will no one but Zaniboni cry 'Long live Liberty...
...crouched, speed-stunned in Signer Mussolini's lap as the Dictator stepped upon the throttle of his racing car and sped toward Rome. That was in 1923. Provincial admirers had bestowed the beast. As she grew into a sleek young lioness, the Duce, intrigued, named her Italia Bella. He is wont to enter her iron barred cage crooning "Italia Mia, . . ." and only twice has she scratched him (TIME, July 12). Recently her sleek flanks grew pendulous. The Fascist press began exultantly to refer to her as Sultana, Italia, and she brought forth three cubs...
...they supposed he would scarcely venture to play with her after a few months. To the despair of his guards Signor Mussolini has become so attached to the now full-grown lioness that he insists on entering her cage for an occasional frolic. When he calls: "Italia! Italia Bella!" the lithe tawny beast bounds up to him, is said to purr with alarming loudness. To date 11 Duce has suffered barely a scratch or two from the claws of Italia Bella. Like her namesake, "Fair Italy," she appears to adore him. The invisible talons of Federzoni may yet prove more...