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Capacity to Pay. In preliminary negotiations concluded with the Italian Ambassador and Signer Alberti last summer, the American Debt Commission asked for a statement of Italy's capacity to pay. This was presented by the present Commission in the form of "24 monographs," collections of statistics bearing on the point. The Treasury had of course had its own experts prepare similar statistics. Mark Sullivan, one of the ablest and most reliable of the Washington correspondents, was last week responsible for the assertion that the Italian estimates of their capacity to pay were slightly greater than the American estimates...
...take an interest in a powerful motor car loaded with extra gasoline tins, which mysteriously appeared in an alley behind the hotel. When the police were informed of these doings, they responded with grim enigmatic smiles. Later they declared that the details of the plot had been known to Signer Mussolini for weeks; that Tito Zaniboni and General Capello had long been carefully shadowed...
...entreaties that she "come along anyhow": "Non! I am a disciplined Fascist. Without permission from my Duce* I refuse to move!" Near Leghorn, squadristi (gunmen) riddled a railway coach which they thought contained Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party and "big personal friend" of Benito Mussolini. Signer Farinacci, having chanced to miss his train, escaped death. Foiled, the squadristi vowed that he had ordered them to murder numerous Masons at Florence (TIME, Oct. 19) and had then punished several of their number for doing...
Died. Ellis L. Dresel, 54, lawyer, diplomatist, signer of the Peace Treaty with Germany, as plenipotentiary and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin after the War, at his home in Pride's Crossing, Mass. A lawyer for 25 years, he suddenly became a diplomat through accidentally being in Berlin when the War broke out and there offering to Ambassador Gerard his services in looking after stranded Americans. Later he was an Attache of the U. S. Embassy at Berlin; aided the Red Cross in caring for prisoners of war hi Germany; headed the political information section...
...Cecil Hurst (Britain), M. Fromageot (France), Dr. Gaus (Germany), M. Rolin (Belgium), and Signer Pilotti (Italy)-they were the five. They were trying to arrive at a security pact that would settle Europe's boundaries, promote her peace, and enable her to disarm on land as well as sea. They were doing the work, so that in a few weeks the premiers or the foreign ministers of their countries could issue statements and put signatures to a specific document...