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Back in Rome was Mussolini preparing a brotherly welcome for Nazi Air Minister Colonel-General Hermann Goring who was all set for a cozy three-hour chat. Because the meeting was "unofficial" no communique was published by II Duce but the capitals of Europe were soon buzzing with reports that Italy had promised to support eventual Nazi domination in Austria; that the two bigwigs had talked freely about their most pressing common problem, Spain; had discussed schemes for helping each other to achieve "economic independence...
Their two hearts beating as one, II Duce bade farewell to General Goring, reportedly promised to visit Dictator Hitler in June or July, sat back to await the arrival of two other potent Germans, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath and War Minister Marshal Werner von Blomberg. Quickly commented Mussolini-mouthpiece Editor Virginio Gayda, of Giornale d'Italia: "Nothing in Europe without Italy and Germany. Nothing against Italy and Germany." It looked as though an egg of unusual size were being hatched in the Fascist incubator...
Changing her own story last week, Mme de Fontanges claimed that it was the burning jealousy of white-thatched Joseph Paul-Boncour, former Premier of France, that really ended her glorious idyll with Il Duce...
What Premier Stoyadinovich believes in he lately showed by signing with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, son-in-law of Il Duce, a mutual pact of Italo-Yugoslav solidarity. This can be followed by rapid extension of what Premier Mussolini and General Goring call "the Rome-Berlin Axis," making it a ramrod of Power shooting eastward through the Balkans, with Bulgaria already lined up and Rumania not too coy to the seductions of Dr. Schacht and his German trade treaties...
Intervention. Obviously Spain's Civil War still depended largely on decisions yet to be made by Europe's Baldwins, Blums, Hitlers, Mussolinis and Stalins. Il Duce with a characteristic gesture last week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position...