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...years ago Adolf Hitler flew to Venice to clasp hands with Benito Mussolini. After a vegetarian lunch and a heart-to-heart the two Dictators found no matter of importance on which they could then cooperate. Meanwhile, Il Duce had conceived the project of making Italy, Britain, Germany and France the dominating hierarchy of Europe. These nations actually signed his Four-Power Pact only to quarrel over the Ethiopian war and Der Führer's tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles. Last week began a great new effort by Italy and Germany to erect a European hierarchy...
Astonishingly the Fascist Dictator, after cogitating with Italian economists in closest secrecy for a week, adopted exactly the same procedure as had the Socialist French Premier. Il Duce decreed 40% reduction in the value of the lira, bringing it to approximately 19 lire per dollar, and he also sweepingly reduced Italian import duties. Thus Fascist Italy, ordinarily considered a super-Nationalist State, was the first to follow the French lead to tariff appeasement and a better economic world. To Washington and to London was presented a supreme opportunity to join in for international economic peace and increasingly Free Trade...
...Vienna Heimwehr, however, mutinously announced with a 17-to-4 vote that they still supported Fey, and the split in this private army widened rapidly. Cynical Austrians thought last week that Mussolini would now apportion his largesse in such fashion as to close the breach. Meanwhile Il Duce was more concerned with Austria's public army than with her private army, encouraged the Viennese Government to flout the Treaty of St. Germain by last week calling 8,000 21-year-old youths to compulsory military service...
About 60,000 expectant peasant mothers will immediately benefit, receiving cash compensation for pay lost while they must stop work, and something besides for the midwife. However, Italian farm mothers of the type to whom Il Duce geared his oration last week are apt to consider the calling in of a doctor or midwife no more necessary for a healthy woman than for a healthy...
Next reported last week by United Press was another of those incidents concerning a Dictator which make disbelievers shout "Baloney!" A small child was sprawling at play in the middle of the street as II Duce came driving along. He pulled up sharply, got out of his car, picked up the bambino and carried it indoors to its mother, saying: "You must be more careful. Babies are the dearest things in the world." "Because my husband is serving in East Africa, Excellency, I have to work so much harder I have scarcely any time," timidly explained the woman...