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...Benito Mussolini's optimism in the face of this continuing difficulty in Albania, and even after the Libyan tragedy, arose from one thing alone-Adolf Hitler's help. About this help II Duce made one very significant statement. He referred to "German air and armored detachments now in the Mediterranean." Every one had known about the air assistance, but the presence of German armored units in the area was news. These units could not very well have been transferred across the Mediterranean, which is Britain's lake, to Libya. They were doubtless in the Mediterranean area...
Martial law was declared in Santander and Spanish relief agencies said they had the situation in hand. Foreign diplomats contributed to the relief fund. Italian Ambassador Francesco Lequio gave 10,000 pesetas in the name of Benito Mussolini, "always a friend of Spain." U. S. Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell's wife gave 10,000 pesetas, Rumania's onetime King Carol 3,000, German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer a "generous contribution." British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare announced that two ships laden with grain for Britain would be diverted to Santander. Everybody wanted to do something neighborly for politically...
...Benito Mussolini decided last week that it was time to tell his people about some of the things that had been happening to them. So he did. At almost the same moment the notion struck Adolf Hitler to tell his folk why they were pulling Italy's fish out of the Mediterranean. And so he did. The two speeches were noteworthy not only for the light they shed on the probable course of the war, but also for the light they shed on the personalities of Europe's two Rover Boys...
Benito ("Peace is a Catastrophe") Mussolini proceeded to explain to his Blackshirts that Italy had been at war since 1922-"from the day when we lifted the flag of our revolution . . . against the Masonic, democratic, capitalistic world." On the other side of the Brenner, in Munich's Hofbräuhaus, Adolf went him two years better, told his Brownshirts that they had been fighting the Jews and the bankers for exactly 21 years, since the Party held its first meeting. Neither bothered to mention the fact that during most of these two decades Hitler thought Mussolini was a windbag...
...Anderson to write a poem for the program booklet for the big forthcoming "Carnival for Britain" in Manhattan. Author Anderson enthusiastically chipped in with an indignant set of quatrains on a text: "That man's face is a disgrace to Europe," reportedly spoken some years back by Benito Mussolini. Last week, having had their fun reading Poet Anderson's outburst, the sponsors decided it had to be censored as unsuitable for a charitable occasion. Sample suppression...