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...your Sept. 9 issue under "Italy" there appears: ". . . when Corporal Benito Mussolini was down with 42 shrapnel splinters in his epidermis...
Meanwhile 204-lb. British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was showing 185-lb. Benito Mussolini, whom most Britons consider a "Big Bully," how to be a Bigger Bully while remaining every inch an English Gentleman...
Thus doubly bullied by the world's most powerful fleet and most plausible statesmen, Big Bully Benito Mussolini raged in Rome: "We find it monstrous that the nation which dominates the world refuses us a small bit of land under the African sun! Many times I have given Britain assurance that her interests in Ethiopia would be scrupulously respected. Her attitude, I repeat, is monstrous! The real reasons why Britain so strongly opposes Italy she does not mention...
...Quanto Esse." Rome was first to reply. The Italian Government had just taken four steps: 1) announced a 5% war loan so huge that it shook down Rome's stock market several points; 2) obtained from King Vittorio Emanuele III a decree making Benito Mussolini the sole Italian arbiter of Peace or War; 3) set up a board of Italian fighting service commanders to co-ordinate army, air force and fleet move ments; 4) placed 10.000,000 Italians of both sexes on call for a "practice mobilization"?really a nationwide Fascist pep rally?liable to be announced...
Fascist workmen in Trieste lately built for Poland a crack 15,000-ton liner as fine for her size as Benito Mussolini's 54,000-ton Rex. Named the Pilsudski, this spruce motor ship was delivered by her Italian builders last week at Gdynia, was paid for with 600,000 tons of Polish coal which Dictator Mussolini is now burning in the engines of Italy's State Railway. As the Pilsudski steamed in, by far the largest liner ever to fly Poland's flag, proud Poles who had arrived by excursion trains from all over...