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...conflict to 11-to-1. The two kingdoms were in dickering contact at Geneva (see p. 17). But in Rome cautious Dictator Mussolini figured on a "possible double cross" by Britain, France or both. Steaming up Italians to fury at sanctions as the "vilest and meanest" of measures, II Duce prepared to meet them after Nov. 18 by suppressing last week all publication of Italian trade and financial statistics, so that League States that wish to chisel on sanctions and trade with Italy anyhow may do so undetected...
With pistol shot abruptness Italian "food profiteers" were whisked to jail, average Rome food prices downed slightly during the week, butchers were ordered to close shop Tuesdays and sell no beef Wednesdays, and II Duce rapped that "Fascist discipline" will keep Italians from overeating. Famed Count Volpi, stabilizer of the lira, again moved in Government circles which he left after one of the Dictator's orders to "change the guard" (TIME, July 16. 1928). Italy's tempo last week was definitely staccato-and the King came out openly...
Under drastic orders from Il Duce not to "go native" in Ethiopia are Italian soldiers. Last week the war brides and wives they left behind received "Ten Commandments," signed not by the Dictator, but by "Benedetta," announced to be the pen name of the wife of a prominent Fascist. Commanded Benedetta...
Newsfolk in Italy work under the only Dictator who knows journalism's every twist and straightaway. In personal letters to friends abroad last week Rome correspondents built up a backlog of excited rumor against which Il Duce's way with the Press blazed with startling highlights...
United Press broke with Newshawk Morgan on Oct. 1, replacing him as Rome manager with G. Stewart Brown. When the imminence of war seemed to multiply his value as the Rome correspondent closest to Il Duce who had made him a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy years before, Tom Morgan tried to get his salary multiplied. Getting the sack instead, he is thought to have a routine testimonial to his good work and many scoops of the past twelve years. Such a document, under Italy's Labor Charter, is prime evidence on the crucial issue...