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Pacifists. Eyes turned to that other great pacifist, Benito Mussolini. The last chapter ended with II Duce dangling over the cliff, hanging on to neutrality, saying nothing. When would he rouse himself from the meditation into which the mightiest events of his time appeared to have plunged him? Always dynamic, conqueror of many an Ethiopian and Albanian, utterly fearless in denouncing the Masons, a great fellow for jumping over bayonets at Fascist parties (or, better still, having his subordinates do it) how would II Duce measure up to the strain...
...threatened all the Balkans, where Italy has "vital interests." It was against every historical precedent for Italy to let Germany and Russia get away with the Balkans, but, on the other hand, if Germany knocked out Britain and France, Italy could clean up in the Mediterranean. Foxy Benito Mussolini took counsel with himself and at week's end delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of straddling, far removed from the blood-&-thunderousness of his speeches of the last four years...
Last week Benito Mussolini had a long talk with 77-year-old Marshal Enrico Caviglia, one of the few Italian heroes of World War I. Marshal Caviglia had recently inspected the fortifications on the Italo-French frontier and it was presumed that he and Il Duce did not discuss the weather. After this meeting all good Italians still waited anxiously for Mussolini to say something very definite about which way Italy would jump, as they had waited for three weeks since war began...
...were Hitler-I'd lease a house at Doorn, put in a good supply of logs, a couple of left-handed saws (in case Benito visits) and commence writing a sequel to Mein Kampj entitled-you can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time but Mr. Chamberlain-only once...
...Maher Pasha moved with no such heavy steps. Adjoining Egypt is rich Italian Libya, with 120,000 troops. Last week, after Benito Mussolini proclaimed Italian neutrality, these troops stepped back from the Egyptian frontiers. Promptly the Egyptian Cabinet met, took the first step toward declaring war on Germany by breaking off diplomatic relations. If Benito Mussolini was playing Adolf Hitler's game by waiting, Ali Maher Pasha wanted to find it out. If Italy took no stand in this attack on her Axis partner, her intentions would be that much clearer. Ali Maher Pasha settled back to war with...