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Under Marshal Badoglio was a vice chief of the General Staff, General Ubaldo Soddu, but the Army's No. 2 man and field chief was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commanding the divisions along the French frontier. Crown Prince Umberto commanded an Army facing toward Yugoslavia where danger seemed small indeed this week. Commanding a southern defense corps headquartered in Sicily was Marshal Emilio De Bono, a white-bearded little Fascist oldster who planned and provoked the Ethiopian War, then botched it. Commanding in Libya was that "accomplished ruffian," Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Libya's Governor...
...letters with Greece, notes which had the actual effect of a pact of friendship. Thus Italy took step No. 1 in the widely heralded effort to dominate the Balkans. Next step: talk with Bulgaria. This week Premier Mussolini's conference with his new Under Secretary of War, General Ubaldo Soddu, embraced "certain instructions to prepare and to enlarge" the Army...
Italy. An impeccable little "Nude" by Ubaldo Oppi of Milan, which won a prize of $1,000; reticent violence in a dreaming young girl, "Cinthia," by Felice Casorati...