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Hardest working, quickest acting Foreign Minister in Europe is Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed. Last week he: 1) Appointed Edda Mussolini's husband to be Consul General at Shanghai, China; 2) Sought to soothe French statesmen ruffled by Il Duce's warlike outbursts (TIME, June 2) with a proposal that both France and Italy suspend naval building during 1930 and try to reach an accord; 3) Rushed off to Warsaw for a week's confab with Polish statesmen "on matters of trade...
...Hungary would seem to be "Little Otto." If and when proclaimed he may be expected to take vengeance on Julius Gömbös et al., not to mention Isabella. For comfort the fearful gathering looked to Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister, who is said to have enlisted Signor Benito Mussolini's support for a Hungarian restoration?the new King to marry an Italian princess (TIME, June 2). Although recently rumored a supporter of Otto, Count Bethlen was formerly supposed to be an Albrechtist, and is well known to be a complete opportunist?capable of changing his whole program...
...single sitting last week Signor Benito Mussolini was observed to devour...
...editor of the original Fascist paper Il Popolo d'ltalia in Milan, Signor Benito Mussolini was threatened constantly by the Socialist Chamber of Labor, kept a quantity of hand grenades about his office to cow "the enemy." An old employee, Margherita G. Sarfatti, writes in her authorized biography of Il Duce that "one day, the office boy, all unconscious of danger, was about to light the fire in the stove, just then full of bombs." She once reproved her editor gently thus: "Do you really think a bomb is quite a suitable thing to put a lighted cigaret...
...point of fact Herra Jónsson is sufficiently eccentric, in a masterful driving sort of way, to have excited the same sort of hushed questions which are asked about Signor Benito Mussolini. To be great and to be mad are merely two different ways of being unusual...