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...Correspondents Association; the other two, Franz Otto Wrede and Wolf Dietrich Langen, were working for a German news agency specializing in news of Germans living abroad. Of these Langen, supposed to be a close friend of No. 2 Nazi Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was lately thrown out of Fascist Italy for promoting the Nazi cause too zealously there. According to the London Daily Herald, "the principal count against Langen was that he intimidated his fellow countrymen to use them as informers...
...Salvador's dictator, General Maximiliano H. Martinez, made haste to recognize the Fascist Government of General Franco in Spain as early as last November. He has cultivated trade with Germany. Gentlemen who cease to find the membership of their club congenial are apt to run behind on dues...
...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...
...When the Fascist ax & rods drove the Lion of Judah from his Ethiopian home, Benito Mussolini was faced with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
With the thoroughness that has marked all Italian road-building enterprises since the days of Gaius Julius Caesar, Mussolini massed 100,000 Italian workmen, organized them as units of the Fascist Militia to give them dignity in the eyes of Ethiopia's Semitic blackamoors, set them to work digging...