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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...
Early in the week a Frenchman named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert...
...Workman, last year's tired third. Workman stood at 100-8, just a shade better liked than Royal Mail, 100-7, the only former winner in the field. A tempting long shot was Capt. L. E. Scott Briggs's MacMoffat, at 25-1. Another was Sir Humphrey de Trafford's Under...
...voice of The Living God-whose words are mostly verbatim from the Gospels-is that of Actor Pedro de Cordoba, good Roman Catholic. The reporter is Walter Connolly. Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Carr (Over the Hill) plays an old woman, selling palm leaves at a church, who guides the reporter back to Jerusalem. What he sees there he tells with straightforward reverence. His description of the Crucifixion is considerably less lurid than that of the French original (soon to be published in translation by Sheed & Ward). Excerpt from the NBC version...
Died. Eugénie Avril de Sainte-Croix, 84, famed French feminist who was converted to woman suffrage by U. S. Suffragette Susan B. Anthony; in Menton, France. Feminist de Sainte-Croix's motto: "Not to permit women to descend to the morality of men, but rather to raise men to the morality of women...