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When the eighth Assembly of the League of Nations ended its deliberations (TIME, Oct. 10) Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, hastened to the sea coast and there boarded his yacht, the Dolphin, and was no more heard of until, off Majorca, the principal Balearic island off Spain, he entertained General Primo de Rivera, Dictator of Spain...
...What mammal, besides porpoise and dolphin, lives in the water all the time...
Meanwhile a special train hummed northward through the night from Rome. It carried Premier Mussolini, a box of orchids, and many an aid and minion. Soon the Italian naval yacht Giuliana steamed from Leghorn with Il Duce aboard toward the Dolphin...
Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...
...statesmen retired below, conferred for two hours. Finally they emerged, shook hands again, and all present embarked upon a tender for the Premier's yacht. There luncheon was served. There the statesmen conferred again. Some thousands of cheering Italians who lined the shore and spied upon the Dolphin and the Giuliana wondered, as did many a newsgatherer, just what the Premier and the Foreign Secretary said to each other. Straining their ears they heard distinctly "God Save the King" rendered by the Giuliana'a band...