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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1922 at least seven assassins have tried to kill Dictator Benito Mussolini. Last week 38-year-old Bruno Simoni, former inmate of a Rome insane asylum, shot and wounded a Fascist militiaman guarding the Dictator's Villa Torlonia on Rome's Via Nomentana. Said press reports from Rome: The man was waiting for a chance at Premier Mussolini. Said an official Italian communique: It was the act of a madman who simply happened to be in the vicinity of the Premier's house...
Count Teleki retained the former Premier's Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
...Shanghai, Chinese patriots played the grimmer game of "shoot the traitors," killed Tcheng Loh, Foreign Minister in Japan's "Reformed" Nanking Government, a former Chinese Minister to France (1920-27). Like many of his colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge in the Japanese-controlled quarter of Shanghai, leaving detailed administration in Nanking to his Japanese advisers. Even in Shanghai, however, Japan finds it difficult to protect her creatures. Tcheng Loh was the 52nd victim of political assassination in the Shanghai area since Japanese occupation of the city...
...system has replaced the former posteard system in order that the results may become known sooner. This year the new president will be known the day after the election...
...meantime, two meets a week have been carded, with the Pentagonal Meet at Annapolis on March 4, and the Intercollegiate in New York on March 31 and April 1 as main events. Army, Navy, Yale, and Princeton will furnish the opposition at the former; the latter will be open to all leading colleges...