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Signor Mussolini sped up the valley of the Tiber from Rome last week-up and up to crag-defended Perugia, the capital of Umbria. There he conjured a vision of sea power before men whose lives and thoughts are among mountains. Il Duce del Fascismo, smoldering-eyed, retold the ignominy of Rome before Carthage in the days when "Romans could not even wash their hands in the Mediterranean without permission from the Carthaginians...
...bricks as a stonemason's helper when young Austen Chamberlain was Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1895-1900), cabled the British Foreign Office last week his desire for a personal conference with Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard the Dolphin toward Leghorn, Italy...
Meanwhile a special train hummed northward through the night from Rome. It carried Premier Mussolini, a box of orchids, and many an aid and minion. Soon the Italian naval yacht Giuliana steamed from Leghorn with Il Duce aboard toward the Dolphin...
Significance. Newsgatherers wrote glibly for a day about "The Entente of Leghorn." They hinted profoundly at a dark deal between Sir Austen and Il Duce to "counterbalance" the Franco-German "Entente of Thoiry" (see p. 14). Then Sir Austen climbed into a wagonlit, sped to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand, returned to London. By common consent the correspondents decided that all bets in favor of an "Entente of Leghorn" were...
...wealth by other means than tilling the soil. Under the Tsars Jews were practically debarred from landholding and forced into the occupations of middlemen and money lenders. Under the Soviets, land has been placed freely at the disposal of Jews, while at the same time communal distribution of pro duce has ruined them as middle men. Result: Russian Jews are leaving the cities in large numbers, migrating to take up farming in the fertile Ukraine, Since many of the Communist leaders are Jews, the new Jewish farmer class has been extended numerous concessions by the State. For example their household...