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Compared to the refined abruptness of Benito Mussolini or the violence of Josef Stalin in disposing of defective political tools, Adolf Hitler was, until last week, the Gentle Dictator. The accepted Brown House axiom "Once your friend. Der Führer is always your friend!" remained a potent Storm Troop recruiting slogan. One had only to scan the greedy, sensual, plug-ugly face of Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm; one had only to reflect that all Germany knew of his bull-like philandering with effeminate young men (TIME, March 20, 1933), to decide that since Chancellor Hitler stomached...
...Press Benito Mussolini is the Benevolent Dictator who sees all, knows all, weighs every complaint and is never wrong. Last week Italian papers reached Manhattan with accounts of the "challenge to Mussolini" flung down by an oldster named Pietro Savio of 25 Via Calabria, Rome...
Like Santa Claus the venerable Reichsprädsident never comes down the chimney in person, but like Santa Claus he has plenty of devoted henchmen to make his purposeful deliveries. If Adolf Hitler came home with a swelled head and hot new ideas for Dictatorship from his visit to Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 25). certainly last week he was dextrously chilled and shrunk-and by the very Hindenburg henchman who first presented him to the President, dapper, nonchalant Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen...
...policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this pause the Venetian crowd burst into huzzahs and swept police aside in a scramble toward the Leader. Four tall gondoliers pounced on small Benito Mussolini, raised him shoul der high and carried him to his motor car. Cynics observed: "Those gondoliers were detectives!" Zipping out of Venice, 77 Duce made for historic Villa Pisani once used by Napoleon. In Chancellor Hitler's honor it had been spruced up with furniture from Venice...
Potent though they are in Western Europe, neither Benito Mussolini nor Adolf Hitler who backslapped each other last week in Venice (see p. 16) has smashed a dynasty or made himself supreme to the extent of being able to have his personal enemies hanged at their own doorposts with no questions asked. Last week the Near East waited round-eyed for the conjunction of two such dynasty smashers...