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Soon after dawn in Asmara, Eritrea, Il Duce's Son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano climbed into his flying clothes and stepped out to start the war personally. Seven huge Caproni bombers, black against the pale morning light, were already lined up; their engines idling. Il Duce's two sons, Bruno and Vittorio, now lieutenants in the air force, saluted, and took their places. Overalled mechanics crouched under each plane, screwing fuses in gleaming rows of high explosive bombs. In his pilot's seat Count Ciano opened the throttle, then waved his hand as a signal...
...propped up in the market square of Aduwa in memory of the dead of 1896. By this time Rome's desire to celebrate was slightly chilled. How many had been killed? Whose sons were gone? When would the first casualty lists be published? Angrily reproved II Duce's war office...
...Professor is no cloistered scholar. Captured and clapped into a German prison camp during the Great War, he went home to run the Chamber of Commerce in Italy's great port of Genoa, was executive boss of the Dictatorship's control office for Industry when II Duce summoned him last spring. The odd thing about what Guarneri had to say last week as to Italy's position if she must face economic sanctions (see p. 23) was that his estimate tallied closely with those current in the world's leading fiscal circles...
...Even last June the British were exerting pressure," snapped the Professor. "They were demanding immediate payment from us for bunker coal and freezing up on credit." Off the record Italians were said to have noted that, within 24 hours after II Duce refused the concessions regarding Ethiopia offered by Britain last summer (TIME, Aug. 26), British bankers flashed urgent messages to their U. S. affiliates and, when these curtailed credit to Italy, their action was given by British bankers subsequently as a reason why they could not extend credit to Italy. "I have been steadily engaged in adjusting the National...
...have just returned home from viewing the sixth issue of "The March of TIME " . . The sequence concerning the bootlegging of coal in the rugged hills of Pennsylvania was good likewise the scenes concerning Ethiopia, the east branch of the Nile, and Italy's Il Duce were brilliant, but it is the story of the CCC camps which I wish to commend the editors of ''The March of TIME...