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Then war came. When the British drive began last winter he saw the hopelessness of the situation; his heart was not in fighting his friends. Month ago he asked his boss Benito ("War is the Normal State of the People") Mussolini whether he might make peace. He was ordered to continue. And so for a futile month he did his best and his men fought and died. This was the end of Aosta's young hopes...
Bill Tully, first-sacker, was credited with two of the eight Harvard hits, one of which, a three-bagger in the first frame, rang the bell for the first Crimson run. John Mussolini of Brown, however, took the batting prize for the day, with a record of four hits for four trips to the plate. Other successful Crimson bat-swingers were catcher Bob Regan, Art Scully, center-fielder Ed Buckley, third-sacker GII Whittemore, and right-fielder Bill Parsons, each of whom is credited with one hit for the afternoon...
...last week's deal the cream of the Dalmatian coast went, not to puppet Croatia, but to the Kingdom of Italy. Benito Mussolini also knows that Napoleonic kingdoms are not always permanent. For the present, however, Il Duce and his King Aimone will have the loyalty of Poglavnik Pavelitch, who plotted the assassination of King Alexander for Il Duce, then hid out in Italy for seven years until he could help in the assassination of Yugoslavia. Serbian komitajis had a better idea: in their list of men marked for assassination, Pavelitch's name led all the rest...
Reviewing some of last year's copies of TIME, I noted the following in the issue for Feb. 12, 1940: "But before he [Mussolini] embarked on all this, he gave an early morning order: the task of recodifying Italian law, which he began 17 years ago . . . must be completed without fail...
...Some code books have been issued or rewritten, but the job of recodifying Italian law is still unfinished. Mussolini has lately had more pressing problems...