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...democracy you can bet that our dictator, God help us! will be a great democrat, through whose leadership alone democracy can be realized. And nobody will ever say 'Help to him or 'Ave Caesar' nor will they call him 'Führer' or 'Duce.' But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike blat of 'O. K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaay...
With the victory at Málaga, which deprived the Valencia Cabinet of their last seaport on the south coast of Spain, came a tough problem for the Italian press. As yet Il Duce does not choose to make it official that Italian forces are fighting in Spain, but also last week Benito Mussolini did not choose to keep his people fror glorying in a victory won largely by Italia arms. The solution: Italian papers printed nothing from their own correspondents about Málaga, reprinted under banner headlines stories in which London, Paris, Berlin and other papers had spilled...
Significantly meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, no friend of Il Duce, went to "vacation" on the French Riviera, although Mr. Eden has only just finished enjoying the long English Christmas and New Year holidays. In London foreign policy was thus in full charge of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, a leading figure last year in "The Deal" which sealed the fate of Haile Selassie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935 et seq.). Last week such veteran correspondents as the New York Times P. J. Philip scarcely veiled their overwhelming hunch that the French, Italian and German Ambassadors and Sir Robert were sealing...
...down they amounted to this: Spain's White Leader is "an admirer of the way in which Fascism has stemmed the advance of Communism in many countries. He would remake Spain into a close approximation of the Italian Fascist Corporative State as set up and run by Il Duce. He answered in the negative Mr. Howard's question whether he is a Free Mason, adding a blanket disclaimer that his Whites have anything to do with the Grand Orient. Franco affirmed that his Government would negotiate a concordat with the Vatican, insuring that Spain remain Catholic. He refused...
Eastward the Cardinal's passage was almost regal. He inspected II Duce's colonial Massaua, dedicated a new.-cathedral at Port Said, unflinchingly visited lepers in Colombo, enjoyed receptions in Bombay and Singapore. But always during the 22 days the Conte Rosso sped eastward the ship's wireless brought disturbing word of the Holy Father's health. Fifteen years ago storms at sea kept Dennis Cardinal' Dougherty from taking part in the conclave which elected Pope Pius XI after the death of Benedict XV. Last month, honored though he was as the first...