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Today other second-rate Powers still remain what they were then. But in 13 swift years the once obscure Italian editor has carried his once negligible country up & up to the ultimate fulcrum on which Europe's future turns. This may be II Duce's unlucky 13th year, but with the hammer blows of 52 nations ringing out in an anvil chorus of sanctions last week, it was significant to the point of paradox that not Italy but Ethiopia was still being called "the underdog...
Bullets in Their Tails. With II Duce, for better or worse, occupying his present crucial position on the fulcrum of European peace or war, the Mussolini family last week was proceeding steadily about business as usual...
...sides for or against Nazidom-even after the "clarifying talks" of Hitler with Sir John and Captain Eden. It was. Frenchmen angrily declared, just one more case of perfidious Albion's persistence in trying to maintain in Europe a "balance of power'' with herself as the fulcrum...
That Sir John of all Britons should handshake Herr Hitler was what most infuriated Frenchmen. They are resigned to "perfidious Albion" in the traditional role of Justice, upholding Europe's balance of power-with the British Lion couchant on the fulcrum. But even by his closest friends Sir John has long been considered a sincere friend of France, sincerely appalled by Nazidom. In London, as well as in Paris last week, an unflattering impression prevailed that Sir John saw his mission to Berlin in a light so dazzling that out of it he might emerge with the Order...
...what was wrong with the pair of them. Mrs. Sanger gave Dr. Stopes practical advice on contraceptives after which the two went shopping in London for material and information and Dr. Stopes got an annulment of her marriage. Result was that Married Love acquired validity and became a mighty fulcrum for birth control in England...