Word: mussolini
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...grand son of the Kaiser and former Ford Motor Co. employe, last week told A. P. Correspondent Louis Lochner that he had approached Ribbentrop in the autumn of 1938 as a secret and unofficial emissary of President Roosevelt. Roosevelt, said the prince, wanted to arrange a meeting with Hitler, Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain to avert the approaching war. Ribbentrop's only an swer to the prince's suggestion was a threat to have him thrown out of the Luftwaffe...
...solved the problem of drawing paper by using the backs of portraits of Mussolini and the King of Italy, which he found hanging in virtually every Italian home. He marlp notes up front but did his drawings back in rear areas-not in foxholes, as has been reported. Says Mauldin, "Anybody who can draw in a foxhole...
Lean, leisurely Arnaldo Cortesi was schooled in Italy and England, became something of a scholar and a connoisseur of wines. He learned to like the cafe life of Rome, and the way Mussolini's trains ran on time. Leftwingers loudly accused the Times of employing a Fascist apologist; and even other Timesmen rebutted him on occasion...
...Cortesi stuck to his tune, and the Times stuck to him-until Mussolini in 1939 forbade any Italian to work for a foreign newspaper. Thereupon the Times sent him, first to Mexico City for two years, then to Argentina. There he followed his old, pleasant habits. Only once did one of his articles offend: last August the Argentine Government jailed him for eleven hours, but (he wrote) "throughout . . . treated [me] with courtesy." Other foreign correspondents sneaked stories out (via Montevideo) about the oppressions of Argentine dictatorship. Reporter Cortesi argued urbanely with Argentine censors-but never once tried to by-pass...
Died. Tom C. Geraghty, 62, veteran scenarist and ex-head of the OWI's Holly wood bureau; in Hollywood. Connected with many a foreign film, he once did a historical picture for Mussolini, was paid off one-fifth in cash, four-fifths in olive...