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...League Covenant. For this reason they have been received with the greatest calm by responsible Italian circles and by the masses of the people." (Actually Italians who anxiously snatched up newspapers last week were visibly perturbed by M. Laval's speech, most Italians having expected him to aid Il Duce with something more than weasel words...
...Flying from the cool mountains around Asmara to the steaming caldron of Massaua, Italy's Red Sea port, your correspondent, piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Premier Benito Mussolini, saw something today of the tremendous preparations for Il Duce's drive into Ethiopia and found a new respect for the men working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station...
Ethiopia's rainy season, which thus far has made war impossible, ends traditionally with a native feast day, set for Sept. 27 this year. Italian forces were moving up last week in the belief that their zero hour will come early in October. Any time before then Il Duce is open to a fresh and better offer from Geneva than the one made at Paris by Premier Laval and Captain Eden which he turned down (TIME, Aug. 26), and the one before that made by Eden in Rome which raised such a rumpus when the House of Commons learned that...
Meanwhile Il Duce had batches of musty treaties and agreements dug up by his Foreign Office to prove that Italy can treat whatever Fat Chaps has been granted as null and void...
...five, Swimmer Gambi not only finished but won, against 90 high-grade professionals, in the excellent time of 2 hr., 8 min., 55 sec. Hauled onto a float and wrapped in a towel, he shouted into a microphone: "I am happy to have won for Italy and Il Duce!" A crowd of 10,000 immediately stopped cheering and began to boo so loudly that the rest of Gambi's remarks about going back to Italy to join the army remained happily inaudible...