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...decade tinged with "pactomania." The Locarno Pact and sweet "Spirit of Locarno" (which assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
Only a corporal in the World War, Benito Mussolini this week abruptly mobilized for his first war as Dictator with gusto. Calling to the colors more than 250,000 Italians-two divisions of the military class of 1911-plus three classes of naval fighters, II Duce sent 50 battle planes thundering on ahead to Africa...
Bellwether of the Italian Press is Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia, house organ of Fascismo. Behind it trail a flock of "semiofficial" newspapers, potent among which is conservative La Stampa, published in Turin by the man who builds four of every five automobiles in Italy, Senator Giovanni Agnelli. Proud old Senator Agnelli takes his journalism as seriously as he takes his Fiat automobiles...
...fashioned opinions of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin no dictatorship could count on getting enough votes if the ballot were secret. This fallacy Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have exploded with secret ballot after secret ballot in 'which they always poll better than 90%. Last week Joseph Stalin decided that it will now be all right for the Soviet Union to have secret ballots...
...hard money folk the brightest news in Paris last week was persistent leakage of rumors that Pierre Laval in Rome promised Benito Mussolini a whopping French loan to defend Italy's lira on the gold standard...