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...Papal Secretary of State. This decoration, which makes its owner an honorary "cousin of the King," has long been held by Pius XII. Next, the Holy Father gave Foreign Minister Count Ciano a moderately good decoration, the Order of the Golden Spur. The Vatican whispered that this week Il Duce is to pay a formal call on Il Papa (although the Pa lazzo Venezia was not so sure), and that this spring the Pope will again break precedent by making a tour of Italy's cathedrals...
...therefore displeasing to the Nazis and Russians. Italian public and official opinion follows the Church in its fear lest either Naziism or Communism or both be carried violently into the Balkans or Near East in the next few months. This the Allies must try to stop, and II Duce is resolved to trade on the "nuisance value" of the Italian Navy and Air Force...
...once helped Poland. But the Italian Navy and Air Force could harry the flow of French munitions, troops and supplies for Syria-not that the Italian people would wish these cut off. Presumably, M. André François-Poncet was preparing the ground with the horse-trading Duce for a more or less secret Allied understanding with Italy...
Last week the British press, constantly grasping at peace straws, again rumored that German overtures may soon be made via Italy to the Allies. There was no confirmation of this in Rome, where II Duce received last week Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. Herr Himmler was said to have received from Premier Mussolini a "personal message" for Chancellor Hitler, but the Gestapo chief busied himself mainly about technical aspects of the option now being exercised by inhabitants of the Italian Tyrol of choosing on or before Dec. 31 whether to remain Italian subjects or be transported free to Germany...
...Benito Mussolini was caught bluffing with his Nazi-Fascist "Pact of Steel," and when the Allies called his bluff, II Duce rather awkwardly last fall backed down and declared "non-belligerency." Grumbling at home last autumn and a major shake-up among his top officers indicated that Mussolini's Italy had to do a lot of sail-trimming. > After seven years of Franklin Roosevelt, the U. S. was still in the dumps, offered no example to the rest of the world as to how to get along. Best Roosevelt deeds of 1939 Were his earnest but unheeded plumpings...