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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Waiting at sheltered Riccione on the Adriatic seaside were Donna Rachele Mussolini and 22-month-old Babe Romano, indisputably Il Duce's favorite son, often called by him "the first child of my second series." Waiting also was a spandy new speedboat. So far as observers could see, the birthday celebration proper was in two parts: 1) Donna Rachele sat placidly on the beach; 2) Dictator Benito and Babe Romano went out morning and afternoon in the speedboat, dashed thrillingly through spume-flecked waves...
...Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often large and brawny than thin and puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception of World's Champion Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, all the international Masters were entered. Dr. Alekhine was a spectator; did not play because next month he has a world's championship...
...politics M. Briand is several degrees farther to the Left than M. Poincare and would therefore naturally look for support in the Chamber of Deputies to a new alignment of factions and farther to the Left. 2) The 125 radically Radical-Socialists, on whom Briand has often relied before, were left out of the last Poincare Cabinet, are in a huff, and last week made exorbitant demands as the price of their support. And they militantly demanded exclusion from the new Cabinet of go-getting Andre Tardieu, "the most American-minded Frenchman," who was M. Poincaré's close colleague...
...Hungary's famed Ferenc Molnar, fat, ironic playwright. Once a noted beauty, the Baroness Molnar grew eccentric after her husband's death in 1900, cut her hair short, adopted peasant garb and, during the War, equipped and mannishly managed a large field hospital. Although often styled "richest woman in Jugoslavia," she recently dispensed with nearly all her servants, then filled the sumptuous salons of her chateau at Starilec with innumerable dogs and birds...
...first the Chinese Government's wiry little Foreign Minister, Dr. Cheng T'ing ("C. T.") Wang (Yale, 1911), vehemently asserted China's "right" to grab the C.E.R. The Treaty of 1924, he pointed out, provides that the Soviet railway personnel must not engage in Communist propaganda, a proviso often flagrantly violated. Right or wrong, however, Dr. Wang changed his tune when the screws of diplomatic pressure were applied. Presently the Chinese Foreign Office announced that...