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Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer paid a visit to Benito Mussolini (see col. 3), which caused a bright Englishman to observe that he had never before heard of rats boarding a sinking ship. At Merano, in northern Italy, Germany's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conferred with Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Italian Chief of Naval Staff, about the sea war against Britain in the Mediterranean...
...French Indo-China armistice is to expire, by which time Japan was expected to have French Indo-China in her clutches. By then, too, the moon would be dark over the English Channel. If nothing happened by the end of February, those who expected attack might relax-something Hitler, Mussolini, Konoye & Co. may have been counting...
...navy," Admiral Jean Fran-gois Darlan once said, quoting Richelieu, "one can neither carry on a war nor profit by a peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...
...that Army from the British. To Spain he was willing to sell another bit of the Mediterranean if Spain would help to close the Strait of Gibraltar. Altogether, having been whittled down to the size of his Mediterranean neighbors, Benito ("We Prefer to be Feared Rather Than Loved") Mussolini was feeling mighty friendly toward them...
...last week, for the first time, Benito Mussolini took the trouble to meet the man he helped to power in Spain. At II Duce's invitation Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Foreign Minister and brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother...