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...blank check did not worry about Jesse Jones's cashing it. Congress had learned to trust him. Said Hamilton Fish: "I believe that this fund is in safe hands when placed at the disposal of Jesse Jones. ... I would bet on Jesse Jones to outguess and outbargain Hitler, Mussolini. ..." The House passed the bill (218-to-116), sent it on to conference, where no trouble is expected...
This week Benito Mussolini of the protruding eyes and loud, guttural noise went to Brennero to confer with Adolf Hitler. It was the sixth time the two dictators had met since World War II began. To this conference they brought not only their Foreign Ministers, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano, but also the chiefs of their high command, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and General Ugo Cavallero. WThat they planned the world would soon know, for each previous meeting has marked a new stage of the war. For the present all that Berlin and Rome announced was "complete agreement...
Much had happened since they last met, January 20. Mussolini's legions had miserably failed to conquer Greece. Hitler had rescued them. Mussolini's legions had been chased out of Egypt and westward across half of Italian Libya. Hitler had rescued them. The France that Mussolini declared war against had become a friend of Hitler's. Hitler's Air Force had taken Crete, astride the eastern Mediterranean...
Hitler may present Crete to Mussolini, as he has presented him with the puppetries of Croatia and Montenegro and with a bit of Dalmatia, but such generosity costs Hitler nothing because Mussolini is a puppet of Hitler's. Well might the two dictators reach complete agreement; Mussolini can no longer...
...other hand, Mussolini's record in Libya has shown that he falls far short of being the "Protector of Islam." In less than a generation of Italian rule, the Moslems in Eritrea have decreased from over a million to 400,000. And Hitler's prestige is not raised by his contemptuous references to the Arabs in "Mein Kampf...