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This new policy was to give Italy a part interest in the strategic French railway penetrating the heart of Ethiopia. Signor Mussolini also received from M. Laval a "free hand" with respect to the dusky Empire (TIME, Jan. 21). In Paris the great passage in Premier Laval's speech last week was considered that in which he adroitly inferred that Sir Samuel Hoare had, by implication, promised British support to France should Germany attack her or attempt to seize Austria. Cried the Frenchman with enthusiasm while the Briton looked faintly uncomfortable: "In an address elevated in its thought, where...
...nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.* Silver collected from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe to desert their Emperor, as well as by Arab sheiks whom II Duce plans to hire from across the Red Sea and fling under Islam's banner against Negro soldiers of the Cross...
...result that their conversation was marked by a cordiality quite removed from the slight frigidity which attended Mr. Eden's explanations to France. Reserving most of his diplomatic honey for a second conversation to be held next day, Mr. Eden nevertheless found time in two hours to assure Signor Mussolini that Britain would make no further bilateral agreements with Germany affecting armaments. Il Duce seemed satisfied...
...clean through, Signor Mussolini ordered instantly expelled from Italy the Tribune's Rome correspondent of seven-and-a-half years, David Darrah. He was hustled onto a train by Fascist police with only such money as he had in his pocket, Mrs. Darrah hastily rushing down from their home with a few necessaries in a suitcase. Snorted the Tribune's pugnacious publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick: "Send another man to Rome to replace Darrah? No, I don't think so. Why should I send a man there just to take Government handouts...
...Signor Mussolini, himself once an editor, now omnivorously directs the whole Italian Press, guiding its newsorgans from a central Rome bureau of which his sleek young son-in-law, Count Ciano, is chief...