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...Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung's favorite stories is about his encounter with President Roosevelt in the White House last spring (TIME, May 15). To Italy's Banking Association soon afterward Eccellenza Jung declared: "I had the honor of stating the attitude of the Duce to the President when he enquired of me as to Italy's attitude on two of the questions which the United States deems of preeminent importance for the London Economic Conference: monetary stabilization and the return of all currencies to a common standard which the United States cannot conceive of as other...
...Jung who was Italy's Chief Delegate: "Ah Signori! those nations which have remained faithful to gold have rendered a precious service to the world. President Roosevelt's latest step [to revalue the dollar between 50 and 60? gold is fresh proof of the wisdom of the Duce...
...order of Secretary of the Fascist Party Achille Starace, all deputies appeared in the Chamber with their coats off and wearing black shirts. They met to deprive themselves of most of the Chamber's powers in economic matters and to confer those powers on the organs of Il Duce's famed "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20, et seq.). This elaborate mechanism for integrating production, consumption, employment, profits, imports and exports is best able to function, Dictator Mussolini believes, on a rock-firm gold standard and eliminates all necessity for a managed currency...
...Fascist presses last week rolled a new pamphlet form of marriage certificate, now being issued to Italian newlyweds. After the names of bride and groom appear twelve blank spaces for the names of their twelve children-a modest estimate, since Il Duce recently gave prizes to 92 "Champion Mothers" with an average of 14 living children apiece (TIME, Jan. 8). Thumbing on through her marriage cer tificate, the Italian bride comes upon these legal reminders: "Matrimony imposes on married couples the reciprocal obligations of cohabitation, faithfulness and assistance (Article 130 of the Civil Code)." "The husband is the head...
...cases of acute appendicitis died 20 years ago. One out of ten cases of acute appendicitis died last year. The failure of advancing surgery to re duce this mortality rate prompted Dr. Urban Maes, able New Orleans appendectomist. chief of the department of surgery of Louisiana State University Medical Center, to search for explanations. His conclusions he last week presented in the American Journal of Sur gery*: "Categorically speaking, the mortality in appendicitis is not usually the mortality of appendicitis itself; it is usually the mortality of unwise treatment, the mortality of delay, and the mortality of the complications that...