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...usual King Vittorio Emanuele lived in his "World's Most Luxurious Royal Train" during the week of maneuvers, while Il Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...
...pudgy fingers of Adolf Hitler one day last week gave a soft, squashy handshake to this array of luncheon guests: His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria; Dictator Mussolini's sons Bruno and Vittorio; His Royal Highness Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and his youngest sister Maria; Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden...
...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia, had just upped Marshal Badoglio from the administrative office of Viceroy of Ethiopia to the aristocratic, hereditary dignity of Duke of Addis Ababa. It was time for the rumors that at heart Marshal Badoglio was anti-Fascist to be scotched last week, and scotched they were. Amid regal pomp the Duke of Addis Ababa drove to the Secretariat of the Fascist Party, majestically ascended its marble stair and received a card enrolling him as a member of the Fascist Party. Grizzled new Member Badoglio then barked a loud, soldierly...
After the smacks Corporal Mussolini, who has never had himself promoted above his actual War grade, patted Marshal Badoglio affectionately on the back, presented a bouquet to the Marshal's wife, affably greeted their daughter. Later Emperor Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio reviewed troops amid deafening plaudits near the Triumphal Arch of Constantine. Once home, the Viceroy of Ethiopia confided with an old soldier's simple candor the main reason why he did in fact return to Rome last week...
...Imperatore! Imperatore! Salute Imperatore!" chanted the crowd when Vittorio Emanuele, in full Army uniform, showed himself on a balcony. The first Roman Emperor in 1,460 years raised his withered hand to the visor of his cap, said nothing...