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...Levantine-blooded citizens in 1921 were given full Responsible Government with their own Constitution and freely elected Legislative Assembly. Some of these swarthy British subjects have since shown for Italy a preference so marked that tension in Malta was extreme while Stanley Baldwin was pressing on with "Sanctions" against Benito Mussolini. Last week the Malta Constitution was abolished by His Majesty's Government, Malta was dropped from Responsible Government to the status of a Crown Colony in which the British Governor has the authority of a Dictator. The Italian language, banned by Britain in 1934 from being taught...
Last year Benito Mussolini truculently held Italy's war games on the country's North frontier. Last week he staged this year's war games in mid-peninsula among the mountain crags near Naples, which was about as near as the stormy Dictator has ever come to a Peace gesture...
...deed affecting 46,000 firms and the daily lives of 1,300,000 workers was done last week by Benito Mussolini. Shrilled Italian newsorgans: "This is II Duce's method of proving to Italian workers that they would have nothing to gain from Communism and are better off under Fascism...
Another professional move was by Benito Mussolini who has been rushing every kind of Italian aid to the White forces battling Madrid. IL Duce kept this up until 48 hours before a great mass meeting of French radicals was about to force the hand of Premier Leon Blum with demands that his Cabinet rush similar aid to the Spanish Radical armies. At this psychological moment Premier Mussolini had his son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano announce Italy's adherence, with reservations, to the French Cabinet's round robin, not to aid either side in Spain (TIME...
...away to some other planet while the French Chamber of Deputies adjourned and the Bank of France was reorganized, but he and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos had to do something about Spain and kept pressing upon the Great Powers their round-robin resolution for absolute neutrality (TIME, Aug. 17). Benito Mussolini declared that Italy could adhere to it only if all powers signatory to it would bind themselves not only to refuse "State aid" to Spain but to prevent "private aid" as well from reaching Madrid. In a rage at this, some 30 Red and Pink Deputies and Senators...