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Fine Style. The wicked, 1,000-mile route that winds south from Brescia along the Adriatic littoral and then curls north across the Apennines was used by Benito Mussolini as a monument to Benito Mussolini. Having made his trains run on time, the Duce was determined to prove the quality of his roads. For Fons, 28, the race was simply a chance to prove his hard-earned skills. Short years ago the dark-skinned Spanish nobleman was known for his heavy-foot driving, the careless speed that sent his cars tumbling off the track as often as they finished...
...instance," snapped House Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon, "in which a Government employee came up to the Capitol and issued an ultimatum to the House and Senate." Against that ultimatum, the "United States Congress, the greatest legislative body in the world, that stood up to Hitler, that stood up to Mussolini, that stood up to Stalin, stampeded like a regiment dissolving at Waterloo-before a Postmaster General...
Died. Alice Rohe, 81, veteran spinster journalist and magazine writer, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau (United Press in Rome, 1914), the first woman (1927) to interview Mussolini after his rise to power; in Manhattan...
...weight with the Tory Party and with Macmillan personally than the sibilant, stern Lord Salisbury. Besides being relatives by marriage, Macmillan and Salisbury have been political allies ever since 1938 when Salisbury, along with Anthony Eden, resigned from Neville Chamberlain's government in protest at British appeasement of Mussolini. When Suez and ill-health drove Eden from No. 10 Downing Street last winter, it was Salisbury, together with Sir Winston Churchill, who persuaded the Queen to name Macmillan Prime Minister instead of "Rab" Butler (who had once supported Chamberlain's appeasement...
...other major dissent from the Tory leadership was foreign policy. Two years before Eden, he renounced the party whip (roughly equivalent to resignation from the party) in 1936, in protest against the failure to impose economic sanctions against Mussolini's Ethiopian invasion...