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There had been a slight rift when Benito Mussolini drew France, Britain and Germany into his Four-Power Pact (TIME, May 29, 1933, et seq.). This came to nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly...
...When Benito Mussolini marched on Rome, the only first-rate ports on the whole Adriatic (back seam of Italy's boot) were Venice and Trieste. In recent years the Fascist Government has spent millions of lire building another great new port at the medieval town of Bari, with elaborate warehouses, tracks, and a model town, to serve North Africa and the East...
Only last year Il Popolo d' Italia, personal newsorgan of Benito Mussolini, scoffed at Otto as "a thick-headed young Habsburg who could not possibly under stand Fascism." But that was last year. Since then Otto has applied himself to a diligent study of Il Duce's "Corporative State," become glib in its specialized argot. Also the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss reminded Il Duce of the advantage of a Crown held by such a prolific dynasty as the Habsburgs...
...week, for away from the blank cartridges of the maneuvers, he was still playing with Austria's political dynamite. In the face of the surly, worried opposition of the Little Entente, owl-eyed Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were...
Seers and oracles studying this jumble of words decided that it meant that the restoration of Otto was a card still a long way up Benito's sleeve, and that Italy was worried about unconfirmed rumors to the effect that the Schuschnigg Government was softening toward the former Social Democrats...