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...expansive was the mood of the Premier after the warmth of his African receptions that he chose to ignore the latest manifestation of Italian ill will. Special Correspondent Jérôme Tharaud of the Paris-Soir arrived at Genoa by plane en route to Djibouti. Even though he had an Italian visa, the Fascist police interrupted his voyage, escorted him back to the French frontier. Reason: Italy claimed M. Tharaud had written articles uncomplimentary to Italian soldiers in Spain...
...were at Genoa when we learned of the death of Ataturk," Miss Pishmish added. It was Ataturk who was responsible for the rejuvenation of the University of Istanbul, five years ago, when he had many of the old professors fired, and imported new ones from the various European countries, especially from Germany...
Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat-bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously...
...steamships which had seen heavy service shuttling troops and wounded from Italy to Spain and Ethiopia and back. Heads of the families were either veterans of the Ethiopian campaign or stanch Fascist Party members. Many of the women were big with child. Three infants had been delivered on the Genoa docks. Trucks, provided for each family by the Government, rumbled each family to its new home. These were 25-to-75-acre farms, laid out by Government engineers, completely equipped with a fire on the hearth, food on the shelves, cattle and poultry in the yard and a picture...
...that a large proportion of Rightist aviators are Italians. Also well known is the fact that the principal Italian air base in Spain is on the island of Majorca. Big question of last weekend's war scare was whether Leftist Spain was threatening to bomb Italian cities like Genoa (400 miles from Barcelona) and Rome (550 miles) or simply Italian-controlled cities like Palma, Majorca...