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...Flying from the cool mountains around Asmara to the steaming caldron of Massaua, Italy's Red Sea port, your correspondent, piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Premier Benito Mussolini, saw something today of the tremendous preparations for Il Duce's drive into Ethiopia and found a new respect for the men working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station...
...Benito Mussolini stood last week four-square on a package of exploding firecrackers. Zing!-the British Navy blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!-Italian submarines prepared to counter with "maneuvers" across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...
...wounded men, told that he would lose his sight, cried out, "Then I want to see Il Duce before I go blind!" During the World War, when Corporal Benito Mussolini was down with 42 shrapnel splinters in his epidermis, King Vittorio Emanuele came to his hospital bedside. Last week the Dictator hurried to the wounded man who had asked...
Climax of maneuvers was the first Cabinet meeting ever held by Premier Mussolini outside of Rome. Present were: Foreign Minister Benito Mussolini, War Minister Benito Mussolini, Naval Minister Benito Mussolini, Air Minister Benito Mussolini, Minister of Interior Benito Mussolini, Minister of Colonies Benito Mussolini, Minister of Corporations Benito Mussolini...
...Rickett is lone-wolfing, that he got the concession by making Power of Trinity and his Yankee adviser believe that Standard Oil can stop Mussolini, and having obtained the concession, will now try to sell it to the highest bidder-perhaps even to Mr. Rickett's "friend," Benito Mussolini. The Rickett Concession was granted to "the African Development & Exploration Co." This was recently set up as a Delaware corporation by a discreet Manhattan firm which makes a business of incorporating dummy concerns and keeping their secrets...