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This motion was adopted at massive Palazzo Venezia last week in a tumultuous closing of ranks around the Dictator by Italians who were saying in their own way, "We hold these truths to be self-evident. . . ." With Mussolini stood Grand Councilmen whose names the world knows: Marconi, Volpi, Balbo, Grandi and others, scarcely one of whom has not been the butt of anti-Fascist insinuations that he had "quarreled with Mussolini" at one time or another. Air Marshal Italo Balbo, once rumored "banished'' to the post of Governor of Libya by the "jealous" Dictator, has been in Rome...
...they faced each other across the great oak table in Palazzo Venezia last week neither Sir Eric nor the Dictator harbored illusion. The sins and the mistakes of Italy's Victorianism were transparent...
...Total Forces!" At Rome the Cabinet in which Benito Mussolini holds eight portfolios met in frowning Palazzo Viminale and a communiqué was issued which was in fact the Dictator's answer to Geneva. "The Hoare and Laval speeches," declared Premier Mussolini's communiqué, "could not be different from what they were because of the English and French positions with regard to the League Covenant. For this reason they have been received with the greatest calm by responsible Italian circles and by the masses of the people." (Actually Italians who anxiously snatched up newspapers last week were visibly perturbed...
...this slick out was pondered by His Majesty's Government, an amazing indiscretion popped loose in London. From Mr. Eden or some member of his immediate entourage Universal Service claimed to have scooped the actual words of Il Duce to Britain's envoy at their private conference in the Palazzo Venezia...
...Duce's vast drafty office in the Palazzo Venezia details of that plan were worked out. An aerial defense treaty between France and Italy alone was drawn up providing that, if either nation was attacked, the combined fleets would attack the aggressor. It is intended to invite Belgium, Germany and Great Britain to adhere to the agreement as soon as possible. It was indicated last week that Great Britain would make no promises but was thoroughly in favor of the plan as far as it has gone...