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Rotting corpses, noisome reminders of Mussolini's sordid victory, littered the Ethiopian bush. It was treacherous country at best, full of crocodiles and hostile tribesmen-certainly no place for an Ital ian soldier to go wandering. But the lieu tenant had a bad tooth. He had to get to an army dentist, and a short cut through the bush would cut his traveling time in half...
...hubbub of speculation over his possible successor. The candidate reportedly favored by Cordell Hull-onetime Ambassador-to-Italy Breckinridge Long - was certain to meet bitter opposition from those who think democratic aspirations are important. For Breckin ridge Long, whose swank parties were attended by the fanciest members of Ital ian society, has won no distinction by his opposition to Fascism. Other candidates for Sumner Welles's vacated job are Career-Diplomat George S. Messersmith, onetime Minister to Austria...
...Lateran pacts and Concordat with Mussolini whereby the Italian Government agreed to pay the Vatican $39,200,000 in cash; to give it $52,300,000 worth of Ital ian Government bonds; to recognize Vatican City as a sovereign state; and to make Catholicism the state religion of Italy...
Autopsy. Author Chamberlin doubts "whether most Americans realize the ex tent of the fall of liberal civilization in Europe, the thorough sweep of old stand ards and values." In chapters like The Russian Revolt Against Civilization; Ital ian Fascism: Middle Class Bolshevism; The German Power Machine; The Clash of Revolutions in the Orient; The Fall of France; America Faces the Iron Age, he makes sure that they will...
...French territory for which Ital ian mobs have been howling...