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Capitalism is Dead!" In Spain's deadlocked war the Miaja Family were last week's prime news copy, but Italian forces were becoming most active in the White drive to secure Malaga and Il Duce loomed large in Spanish eyes. At Rome that sympathetic female correspondent to whom so many statesmen find it easy to talk, Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, had a long session on Spain with Mussolini. Crisply he said that Europe's first task must be to end Spain's war, that no other European problem of consequence can be solved until...
...arrive in flaring black military breeches, well-shined boots and unadorned brown shirt. Up jumped the Reichstag to salute and "HEIL HITLER!" Down sat the Reichstag. Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick nominated Minister-Prasident-Generaloberst Hermann Wilhelm Goring, fresh from his parleys in Rome with II Duce, to be Speaker again. Up jumped the Reichstag, thus electing him unanimously...
...Blackface War, Paleface Bruno Mussolini, youngest Italian bombster, was only 17 when Pappa made war, is now going to fly by hops to California, then try to make it from San Francisco to Rome, nonstop. With him, just in case, will ride Major Attilio Biseo, personal pilot to Il Duce. . . . Pappa say no, no and NO the other day to keep Daughter Edda in town for the family weddings, but Countess Edda is her great big daddy's rock candy from way back, and last week she again reserved on the Conte di Savoia, sliding her into Manhattan...
...Corso Umberto Primo or Street of Humbert I is Rome's "Central Street," ends at Il Duce's office, contains the best shops, better-than-Broadway hotels, adjoins theatres and would adjoin "hotspots" except that Il Duce has drastically cooled all these...
...Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy to make possible so grandiose a reshuffle of the entire European situation...