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...sincere, the French Government suppressed, last week, the anti-Fascist journal Corriere Degli Italiani published at Paris, after its editor had headlined: "One man [obviously Mussolini] must die for his country!" In future, declared the French Foreign Office last week, all articles tending to incite antiFascists to assassinate Il Duce will be pitilessly suppressed in France. Since Signer Mussolini has tried for months if not years to coerce the French Government into taking .just this stand, his good humor last week was understandable. Said he, however, apropos of a possible treaty of friendship with France: "Such an undertaking . . . could...
...Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous man I ever knew. He has charm, personality, strength, a sense of humor. He is a genius! He is so wonderful that every other man you meet after you have seen him seems flat...
...pestilence-ridden, and shaken early this year by a devastating earthquake. Since Italy can expect no substantial aid from so puny and impotent an ally, it became interesting to speculate on why the pact signed last week constitutes "one of the greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved" by Il Duce...
Nevertheless, it was mooted that Signer Mussolini would have something to say on the Franco-Jugoslav treaty when Parliament convenes next month, and that something, all conceded, would be quite up to Il Duce's usual pyrotechnical verbiage...
Grave Alice smiled with pleasure. She presented Il Duce with a copy of her father's translation of Dante's Divinia Commedia-a work that had aroused enthusiasm at Harvard in the 80's and had given a great impulse to the study of Dante in the U. S. Signor Mussolini gravely thanked her for thus honoring him and, in a cordial conversation, expressed his great admiration for her poet-father...