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With Mussolini out, Fillmore Calhoun is on his way back to Rome for TIME...
...Calhoun was running our Rome Bureau all through the dark spring of 1940 when France was collapsing and Britain was girding for invasion. He saw clearly that "it is inevitable that Italy will be involved; Il Duce has been building for this war as surely as Hitler"-and he was in the crowd beneath the balcony of the Palazzo Venetia when Mussolini delivered his stab in the back to France and called Italy to arms "to safeguard her honor, interests, and future...
Three weeks later Calhoun was kicked out of the country for a story that called Mussolini that "elderly butcher boy of Fascism" - and rather than send another correspondent, we closed the Rome Bureau. In the face of wartime censorship there was no chance in Italy for TIME'S kind of reporting...
After he was ordered out of Italy, Calhoun did hitches for TIME in Lisbon, Ottawa, and Chicago, then joined our New York staff as one of our top writers in Foreign News. Early this August he took off for Cairo, and for the past two months he has been waiting in the Middle East to go into action with General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Ninth and Tenth British Armies...
...addition of History 64a, dealing with the U. S. diplomatic history through the 19th century, will open new work to men in liberal areas, as will Yale Professor Calhoun's "Introduction to Religious Philosophy" listed as Phil...