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...seven divisions of the Ministry of Corporations), S. K. followed him. In Rome he was introduced to Rome's exclusive Circolo della Caccia (Hunt Club), where Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th-Century blueprint of the society of the future. Though Pinelli wore "the founder emblem of the Fascist party . . . [S. K.] caught hints...
...resorts, saw profiteering contractors avoid Government taxes by giving weekend trinkets to pinchable blondes. Old families were being ruined by gambling debts. Married couples rowed over trifles. The black market's tentacles reached into the top of the Fascist hierarchy, despite fulminations against racketeers and "slackers" by Publisher Roberto Farinacci. Thousands of Romans, terrified by accounts of R.A.F. bombings in Naples, took their bambini into Vatican City, where they crowded together ten to 15 in a room...
Under Mussolini, the people of Italy are also going forward into the 20th year of Fascism without several things-without warm clothes, without an adequate supply of food. Saved from Bolshevism, Italy has handed her whole economic life over to hard-headed Nazi experts. Speaking in Trieste, Roberto Farinacci, Mussolini mouthpiece, hopefully told a crowd of 40,000 that Germany "will not betray" Italy after...
Gunther has a long section on the rights & wrongs and possible solutions for the U.S.Argentine beef problem. He also discusses such things as why Buenos Aires busses are called mata gent es (man-killers) and their drivers, asesinos (assassins); why Argentina has two Presidents (Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, Dr. Ramon Castillo); why Buenos Aires has two of the world's best newspapers (La Prensa and La Nation); what Argentines think about World War II; what they are doing about their "powerful and dangerous" Fifth Column; why they say: "When the United States talks about bases it is like stamping...
Argentina was virtually without a Government. President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz was too ill to govern. Acting President Castillo too hamstrung by the Radicals, who saw their party being edged out of the power it won at the polls...