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Died. Marchese Francesco Pacelli, 61, General Counselor of the Papal State, brother of its Secretary of State Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli (see p. 45), intermediary between Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI in negotiating the Lateran Treaties which created the State in 1929; of pneumonia ; in Vatican City...
...tall, handsome, rich young aristocrats called on their Fascist mentor in Rome the same day last week. Just before Britain's No. 1 Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley set out for Rome he blurted: "For the first time I openly and publicly challenge Jewish interests in this country." Since Benito Mussolini pointedly ignores antiSemitism, this outburst last week earned Sir Oswald his mentor's displeasure...
...perfuming the beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
...Wreck, Put-putting motorboats carried the French and British out from their hotel to Emperor Napoleon's erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands...
...perhaps the most public purchase of munitions on record, Emperor Haile Selassie last week gave Premier Benito Mussolini something to think about by going down to the terminus of Abyssinia's French-owned railway* and taking delivery of what His Majesty referred to as 400 machine guns, 20,000 rifles and 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition made in Czechoslovakia and Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed...