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Meanwhile last week Mussolini and Hitler pursued their diplomacy of acts rather than words. Il Duce's son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano sealed an agreement whereby the onetime German legation at Addis Ababa accredited to the Ethiopian Government is abolished as such and becomes a German consulate, its diplomatic functions passing to the German Embassy in Rome. Amid ensuing international jitters, State Department officials in Washington intimated that it will now be "difficult" for "embarrassed" President Roosevelt to avoid recognizing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...flirtation of Der Führer and Il Duce, symbolized last month by the Pact of Berchtesgaden (TIME, July 20), was adorned last week by Adolf Hitler with a thumping reward to its negotiator, Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. Although this swank, sly predecessor of Hitler as Chancellor remains in charge of the German diplomatic mission in Vienna, which retains the status of legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators...
...Romana over Ethiopia has always been envisioned by the Dictator as something to be attained and consolidated in a matter of some 25 years, if indeed Ethiopian savages can be brought to civilized citizenship so soon. Last week Il Duce, with his plans and hopes for the new Italian Empire spreading decades ahead, indulged at Rome in no bombast or boasting, received with Augustan calm an amazing series of capitulations to Italy and to Fascism...
Belligerent Rights. It was part of the Hoare-Laval Deal that withdrawal of British war boats from the Mediterranean would be followed by similar reduction to peace strength of the Italian garrisons in Libya facing the British positions in Egypt which Il Duce crammed with troops to call the Baldwin bluff. Last week a Rome press spokesman confirmed: "We want to see the British ships actually leave." This week Italy emptied Libya of 40,000 troops, announced that it will leave its Libyan air force of 100 bombers and its border fortifications intact...
...done, if anything, about Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact by remilitarizing the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). After the Vienna broadcast it was sharply announced in Rome that Germany must be invited to Brussels and must accept before Italy will even consider sitting in, and Il Duce tagged on a few more things he wants before sending an Italian diplomat even to talk about Locarno...