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...single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
...House of Commons adopted a resolution which made it plain to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that no colonial handout was in the immediate offing, but did not completely slam the door to future bargaining. The resolution read that "no change in the status of colonies, protectorates or mandated territories could at any time be considered which did not take full account of the interests and wishes of the inhabitants." The vote was 253 for, 127 against, the opposition Laborites voting "no" only because the resolution wasn't strong enough for them. Said Colonial and Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald...
...Benito Mussolini strode pompously into the Italian Chamber and sat down with folded arms last week. Il Duce did not, however, assume his celebrated frown, for this was going to be fun, and he was being carefully watched through a monocle by the French Ambassador, extremely potent M. Andre Frangois-Poncet, today the No. 1 Continental diplomat...
...advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency had ended. Officially this week, H. M.'s Government announced that Chamberlain & Halifax "plan" to visit Benito Mussolini in January 1939, unofficially that Halifax may go with the King to Canada in the spring...
...atom at the University of Pisa, continued his acquaintance with it at Göttingen and Leyden, joined the University of Rome faculty in 1927. Short, wiry, dapper and cheerful, he has visited the U. S. several times, speaks heavily accented English, likes skiing, tennis. Some time ago Benito Mussolini, who is not insensitive to the prestige of Italian science, saw to it that Fermi got a fine new laboratory...