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Ordinarily in April the delicate scent of almond blossoms wafts across Stresa's azure lake, agreeably perfuming the beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
...Stresa necessary responsibilities should be assumed without worrying particularly about the results of the French municipal elections or the fluctuation of British by-elections, which seem rather favorable toward Labor, indicating a 'race to pacifism' purely for reasons of internal politics. Stresa, in other words, should represent a fixed point in the stormy sea of European politics...
This fixed point could only be achieved by a decisive agreement among the Great Powers. Realmleader Hitler, with his scorn of Democracy, felt safe enough, since at Stresa Democracy will rule two to one over Fascism. "All their tricks," exulted the Berliner Tageblatt, "will be at best contraptions ... of short duration...
Castles & Teeth. IlDuce. who will open the Stresa Conference in the tall-terraced, fairylike palace on Lago Maggiore where Napoleon dallied for some months with Josephine, sternly warned his people to expect little from the Great Powers' conference. "You must," the Dictator told Italians, "build no castles of illusion...
...valets packed statesmanly baggage rumors vapored in Paris and London that "perhaps at Stresa teeth can be put into the League of Nations...