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Below the rose-colored cliffs of the Dolomites and in the fishing villages near Trieste, Italian citizens argued volubly in German about the Saar last week. Benito Mussolini was about to provide nearly 2,000 of them with temporary jobs there...
...Benito Mussolini. He offered to send any number of Italian Carabinieri into the Saar at once. Taking thought, Saar authorities refused this, feeling that the injection of Italian-speaking troops into this Franco-German stew would only make matters more difficult. Il Duce had another idea. The South Tyrol (except for the Trentino), and the country back of Trieste, taken from Austria after the War, still speaks mostly German. He would recruit a special force among the mountaineers who could talk back to the Saarlander but had only an academic interest in their problem. The League accepted with alacrity...
That did the trick. Foreign Minister Benito Mussolini, puffing with rage, sent the Italian Minister at Belgrade hot-footing around to the Jugoslavian Foreign Office with an official protest. Wrote the Giornale d'Italia...
...such a chain of alliance, not in Germany's pledge on parchment however fine, Louis Barthou would prefer to put his trust. "The solemn promise of Germany," he has said, "is not enough for me." Last week he announced that next month he expects to confer with Benito Mussolini in Rome, seeking Italy's signature for his ring around Germany...
...hundred Italian generals of division-such at least was their number and rank according to the Italian Press-were summoned by War Minister Benito Mussolini to his great office in Palazzo Venezia at Rome last week for one of the Dictator's famed unilateral "discussions." Among the 100 generals fidgeted Crown Prince Umberto Nicolo Tomaso Jean Maria, Prince of Piedmont, General of the 25th infantry brigade and father of an infant on the verge of birth. A few years ago Crown Prince Umberto used to be the last hope of antiFascists who tried to believe that he once challenged...