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...planes were Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers with their identification marks carefully painted out. Each was jammed with cases of machine guns, ammunition, hand grenades, machine-gun belts. Near one of the planes were found several knapsacks containing the khaki uniforms of Spain's Foreign Legion. The eleven aviators arrested by the French were all in civilian clothes, carried civilian Italian passports, but in their pockets were receipted pay checks giving their names and rank in the Italian Air Force. Later reports showed that the planes were part of a flight of 21 that had tried to fly non-stop...
Outside. Italy promptly tried to establish an alibi, claimed that the officers were not Italian, that the planes were private. The Savoia-Marchetti factory is an Italian Government factory. Il Duce, to whom no sin is greater than getting caught, demanded "an investigation...
...ships, cream of 96 tested for the expedition, are Savoia-Marchetti S-55 hydroplanos* similar to those of the South Atlantic flight, great twin-hulled affairs with the pilots' compartment housed in a bridge between the hulls. Mounted above the bridge are two Isotta-Fraschini engines in tandem, each driving with 800 h.p. a three-bladed propeller. Cruising speed: 137 m.p.h. Cruising range...
...practice in Europe (and lately in some U. S. dioceses) is to set a box of candles by every shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned in the diocese of Rome by its vicar general, Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. After July 1 there is to be no crass candle-traffic within the churches. Candles may be burnt as before but it will be less convenient to give a friend a coin and say "Burn a candle for me." Also, there is to be no more photographing of sacred...
...look almost exactly alike, cut their beards identically, wear exactly the same model of starched collar. Every North American knows Foreign Minister Dino Grandi since he called on President Hoover (TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.) Every South American knows Air Minister General Italo Balbo since he led eleven Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes on a flight across the Atlantic from Italy to Brazil (TIME...