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Such were the self-revealing remarks of Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a Swiss correspondent who referred by chance, in Il Duce's presence, to the famed mutton chop whiskers of German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz...
...shape of Italy is a conqueror's boot, and, just across the Adriatic from the "heel" lies, appropriately that sharp spur-wheel, Albania, with which II Duce prods the Balkans (TIME...
...such was the reason for the French demonstration, it came pat to the second; for last week Rumanians were still overjoyed at the support given them by Signer Mussolini against Russia- (TIME, March 21). So popular grew II Duce in Rumania that last week one of the streets in Bucharest was renamed after him. Rumanian Deputies contributed out of their own pockets to set up a Mussolini statue at Kishinev, chief town of Bessarabia...
Counterblast. If Il Duce was mobilizing Albania against Jugoslavia, he took shrewd measures to cover his tracks and conceal his plans. In London, Berlin, the Italian Ambassadors ostentatiously informed the British and German governments, likewise the press, that Jugoslavia was rapidly mobilizing last week against Albania; but that the Italian Government would bend its every effort toward peace...
...might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur. Why not? A few more such incidents, and Il Duce can mature his reputed scheme to seize Albania under pretext of "intervention to maintain Albanian sovereignty...