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...health services. Numerous Europeans, nominated by the League, would be needed to put through these reforms. Depending on whether the reforming Europeans were predominantly Italian?and the Committee of Five omitted the vital question of their nationality completely last week?this plan might offer something or nothing to Il Duce...
...wishing to be derided, the Committee of Five left out the deserts, offered to Ethiopia's dusky but non-Negro ruler and to Il Duce only what the Negroes of Liberia have refused...
...fleet move ments; 4) placed 10.000,000 Italians of both sexes on call for a "practice mobilization"?really a nationwide Fascist pep rally?liable to be announced at any hour this week. In Rome it was supposed to be highly significant that Il Papa, previously lukewarm toward Il Duce in the present crisis, gave his permission as Supreme Pontiff last week that the signal for Fascist mobilization shall be the ringing of Catholic church bells...
...through from Rome the phrase in quanta esse was mistakenly translated, "as," and Anglo-Saxon headlines announced MUSSOLINI SAYS "NO." On the contrary, Italy's Geneva Delegation declared, Premier Mussolini could only have inserted "insofar as" (in quanta esse), "to leave the door ajar for negotiation." Next day Il Duce, having thus far done nothing but reject offers, made Italy's first proposals. His League Delegate Baron Aloisi asked, in effect, for a partial League mandate over Ethiopia. The country's armed forces would be largely under Italian advisers to the Emperor, and exclusively mandated to Italy would...
...accident at this juncture Benito Mussolini helped to restore Greek tranquillity. With British war boats maneuvering as silent threats to Italy in Mediterranean waters including those of Greece, Il Duce, without asking Greek permission as Britons do, suddenly had three Italian war boats drop anchor in three major Greek ports. Local officials frantically wired Athens and the statesmen and militarists of Greece dropped their own feuds to unite in a loud squawk of protest...