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...appearances fun was had. Laval is the son of a storekeeper, and Mussolini is the son of a blacksmith, but for that matter Elena is the daughter of a Montenegrin mountain chieftain who made himself King. One of Her Majesty's ladies-in-waiting has written of Her Majesty's father thus: "He preferred a thousand times his native dress with knives stuck into the broad belt to any other kind, and preferred cutting with these same knives a cold fowl or a piece of mountain mutton as it hung in the family larder to sitting down...
That night there was a bigger banquet, this time in Palazzo Venezia, with over 1,000 carefully checked guests. After all the real triumph of last week was the fact that Pierre Laval was actually in Rome-the first French Cabinet Minister to take that inevitable road since...
Toasting in reply, Lawyer Laval said that Editor Mussolini has "written the most beautiful page in the history of modern Italy. We have given rise to great hopes, great hopes!" continued Orator Laval. "The world follows our efforts with passionate interest! All who are animated by the ideal of Peace today have their eyes turned toward Rome! We must not deceive them. Peace must be maintained...
...Record. The entente being thus well toasted, Mussolini and Laval again sat down at the big table, this time for three more hours of slugging, off-the-record negotiation. They proceeded to talk turkey about Italy's ambition to have naval equality with France, about French insistence that Il Duce stop flirting with the idea of ultimate revision of the Treaties of Versailles, Trianon. St. Germain, etc. More especially they talked about Abyssinia...
...TIME. Dec. 24). Squealing for protection His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I. King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect of God was last week trying to invoke Article XI of the League covenant. To Rome last week Geneva seemed particularly far away. Neither Mussolini nor Laval is squeamish. A definite impression got around that France will not protest too much if Italy makes of Abyssinia what Japan made of Manchuria...