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...French visa, ordinarily $2.33, is reduced to 47? for the Paris Exposition Season this spring and summer, with 50% reduction to Exposition visitors of all French rail fares. Italy offers similar inducements and the recent devaluation of French francs, Belgian francs, Dutch gulden, Swiss francs and Italian lire make these ideal post-Coronation countries, cheaper today by some 20% to 40% than they were in 1936 and better bargains than they will be in 1938 as prices inevitably rise to offset devaluation. Canadians are in the same state of mind as U. S. citizens and last week Canadian Pacific...
Astonishingly the Fascist Dictator, after cogitating with Italian economists in closest secrecy for a week, adopted exactly the same procedure as had the Socialist French Premier. Il Duce decreed 40% reduction in the value of the lira, bringing it to approximately 19 lire per dollar, and he also sweepingly reduced Italian import duties. Thus Fascist Italy, ordinarily considered a super-Nationalist State, was the first to follow the French lead to tariff appeasement and a better economic world. To Washington and to London was presented a supreme opportunity to join in for international economic peace and increasingly Free Trade...
Extracting from his Dictator's black wallet a 100 lire ($8) bill, Mussolini said: "At least for one week you will now be able to devote all your attention to your child," handed her the note, climbed back behind the wheel and sped away...
...Pontine farm which he helped sow with wheat last year, the Dictator last week pitched in under a broiling sun and helped thresh. Afterward, with sweat pouring down his dust-begrimed face, Thresher Mussolini presented his work slip for an hour's labor, drew the regulation five lire...
...three conferences with Mussolini. . . . Rickett, according to his friends, considered himself badly let down by Socony-Vacuum. . . . [From Mussolini] Rickett, it is asserted, demanded $5,000,000 for his share. . . . Rickett, it is claimed here, then made a provisional deal under which he is to get 20,000,000 lire ($1,600,000), partly in stock, if he delivers to Italy this $50,000,000 concession with its virtually unlimited scope of oil, minerals and other exploitation rights for 75 years. . . . The message Rickett claimed to have sent II Duce read...