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Soon after dawn in Asmara, Eritrea, Il Duce's Son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano climbed into his flying clothes and stepped out to start the war personally. Seven huge Caproni bombers, black against the pale morning light, were already lined up; their engines idling. Il Duce's two sons, Bruno and Vittorio, now lieutenants in the air force, saluted, and took their places. Overalled mechanics crouched under each plane, screwing fuses in gleaming rows of high explosive bombs. In his pilot's seat Count Ciano opened the throttle, then waved his hand as a signal...
...Flying from the cool mountains around Asmara to the steaming caldron of Massaua, Italy's Red Sea port, your correspondent, piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Premier Benito Mussolini, saw something today of the tremendous preparations for Il Duce's drive into Ethiopia and found a new respect for the men working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station...
These seven ministers and the Premier were joined by five other ministers and Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace. They first sent greetings to the absent Cabinet member who sailed fortnight ago to fight in Africa, Il Duce's son-in-law Count Ciano. Then, getting down to business, the Cabinet acted as a sounding board from which the Dictator announced that Italy was forthwith put on a war basis for the next three years...
From Naples aboard the Saturnia sailed tubby Air Sergeant Bruno Mussolini, 17, trim Air Second Lieutenant Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and baby-faced Air Captain Count Nobile Galeazzo Ciano, husband of the Premier's daughter and favorite child Edda. With these kin of the Dictator doing their bit, Cabinet members were informed that they are not exempt from answering when their military classes are called, will "fight as privates" unless previous war experience entitles them to higher rank...
...with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...