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Italy's great exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci material at Milan this summer (TIME, May 29) put a wild thought in the head of a visitor named Carlo Noya. Signor Noya went home to the coastal town of Savona. He had an old picture at home and to him it looked strangely like some of the Leonardos he had seen. He fetched it to Milan, showed it to such experts as Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last...
Notwithstanding his reticence, however, there was quite a celebration for Signor Mussolini. He came down from his mountain retreat at Rocca della Caminate in Romagna, to Predappio, his birthplace in the valley below, where 10,000 peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti, cheese, olive oil. He reviewed them, told them his spirit was "unchangeably rural." They in turn filed past the tomb of Alessandro and Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, Il Duce's parents, visited the house where Benito Mussolini was born and the blacksmith shop where his father worked...
...found himself without a job after he had published a picture of Il Duce standing beside Italo Balbo, now Governor General of Libya. Governor Balbo looked years younger than Dictator Mussolini. Editors in Italy do not refer to Il Duce as a grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead is the fact that Il Duce pilots his own plane, rides horseback, swims, skis, can lead his militiamen in a half-mile trot or a goose step. The Dictator's hair is cut close...
...contrast Italy's outstanding exception to such Fascist mores can also be found in Il Duce's family. Although Signor Mussolini's favorite and eldest child, Edda, has done her duty to the State by giving birth to two future soldiers and one future housewife, she has not toiled unduly in the kitchen and has not hesitated to enter the male province of international politics...
...Palestine, then as now preponderantly populated by Arabs.* But as of last week it was more expedient to welsh on the Jews, who are on the run in many parts of the world, than to welsh on the Arabs. Arab friendship in a Mediterranean war of the sort Signor Mussolini has been bellowing about would be of great value to Britain. Nevertheless, there were still plenty of members of Parliament who rose to decry the Palestine plan. Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, head of the War Cabinet that made the Jewish Homeland pledge, called the Government's policy...