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...friction over Ethiopia today, and it probably explains why Paris is indulging in such newsy official leaks, is the quarrel of the two countries over who owns the 15% of the stock in Ethiopia's only railway which Haile Selassie claims is owned by his "Ethiopian Government." Il Duce claims this stock for Italy, by right of conquest. Another 20% belongs to Italy undisputed, dating from the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935). The French are the largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere to own stock control of this...
This Egyptian gibe at Il Duce's recent casting of himself in the role of Protector of Islam was more than matched by mocking English comments last week. "The dirty English!" screamed 250,000 Fascists massed to greet the Dictator on his return to Rome. "If war comes we will swallow up England. The dirty English...
Soon Orator Mussolini was after the high dignitaries of the Church of England who of late have poured vials of their wrath upon him next after the Duke of Windsor. The Duke has not replied, but the Duce last week lashed "the hysterical, hypocritical oratory of certain Anglican pulpits which always see small bits of straw in the eyes of others, while their own eyes are blinded by beams of lumber...
...idyll lasted only a short time. In accordance with her usual customs, she talked too much. Rumors reached the ear of Il Duce, which made him doubt both the discretion, and fidelity of the pretty foreigner. A Minister warned Mussolini that he was risking the annoyance of a petty scandal...
...result was that the young woman was no more received by Mussolini. Weeks passed during which she wrote Il Duce letters that went unanswered. The automobile at her disposal was withdrawn and hotel bills accumulated unpaid. One morning she was found unconscious in her room after having taken an overdose of veronal. "She remained several days in a hospital. During that time Italian police seized her papers, notably her private diary in which her adventures with Mussolini were recorded. Mussolini, when shown the diary, was touched to see that what to him had been of no importance, had become...