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...Army's No. 2 man and field chief was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commanding the divisions along the French frontier. Crown Prince Umberto commanded an Army facing toward Yugoslavia where danger seemed small indeed this week. Commanding a southern defense corps headquartered in Sicily was Marshal Emilio De Bono, a white-bearded little Fascist oldster who planned and provoked the Ethiopian War, then botched it. Commanding in Libya was that "accomplished ruffian," Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Libya's Governor...
...reorganize the Army on the Piave, and planned the final push at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918 which knocked Austria out of World War I. He has been Chief of Staff intermittently ever since, with time out to visit the U. S. (1921), govern Libya (1928-33), finish De Bono's job in Ethiopia. He masterminded Franco's victory in Spain (though he refused to campaign, saying: "I have never been a chief of mercenaries") and studiously applied lessons learned there about mechanization...
First disinterested name to float from the judge's office was that of a modest, softspoken, pro-bono-publico millionaire. Johnny Hanes had left Wall Street to serve as liaison between business and the New Deal, first as an SECommissioner, then (until last December) as Undersecretary of the Treasury. He had quarrelled with many New Dealers, was anxious to get back into business, had turned down several lucrative offers. The Associated trusteeship tempted him because it combined business with a chance to do a job in the public interest. But no sooner was his name proposed than lightning began...
...thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...
First important Mussolini innovation was the creation of the Fascist Grand Council, a body of Fascist bigwigs. Permanent members now are Il Duce and the three surviving Quadrumvirs of the March on Rome-Italo Balbo, Marshal Emilio De Bono, Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi. (Michele Bianchi, the fourth, died in 1930.) Other members are the President of the Senate and 22 more, from Cabinet members to the commander-in-chief of the Fascist Militia...