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Mussolini, no altruist, was clearly hoping that he would be properly rewarded for his friendliness. He would like nothing better than for the British Government to recognize his Ethiopian conquest, then to persuade the League of Nations to follow suit. As the week progressed these hopes looked less & less wild...
...heights; and Norway is all beer, fur and skis. Beyond lies Italy, a pavilion where oranges and lemons arrive each day so completely ripe and fresh from the groves, that no sugar is used in either the orangeade or lemonade. Sour are huge propaganda pictures showing such "atrocities" as Ethiopian blacks lashed by the whips of Haile Selassie's executioners before Italy won her Empire with bombs...
...Would Il Duce use his super-power radio station at Bari, which daily broadcasts in Arabic to the natives of the Near East, as an engine of propaganda to stir up the tribes and wreck partition? Would Bari even broadcast in Hebrew to stir up the Jews? During the Ethiopian crisis, Britain learned to her cost how much trouble the Bari station can stir up among her natives, and of late Bari has unflatteringly called the English "whiskey-guzzling hyenas...
...much the same way as before the Ethiopian War, Italian morale was steadily being puffed up last week. Chief puffer was 44-year-old Roberto Farinacci, editor of Cremona's Regime Fascista, who prides himself on "living dangerously," lost his right hand fighting against the Ethiopians. For the Spanish crisis he had a simple, clear-cut remedy-Italy must make war on France and Britain at once. As is usual when Firebrand Farinacci ignites himself, the Italian Government denied all responsibility, cited the repudiated article as "proof of Italian liberty of the press." Although Britain, too, loves freedom...
William Watts ("Bill") Chaplin, who put his Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome...