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Near Bricchetto as his car passed a squad of sweating artillerymen tugging a 105-mm. gun up a hill, out popped Il Duce to take his place with the privates at the drag ropes...
...roared a sergeant, and up the hill went the cannon while the soldiers cheered. Later in the day, still full of energy. Il Duce took his place in the line again with chin up and swinging arms, pacing a battalion of the 67th Infantry in a route march to strain the legs of the shortest...
Hundreds of miles away in Rome there was more news to excite the Italian War Office. Il Duce himself took over the new Ministry of National Defense, combining Army, Navy and Air. Marshal Italo Balbo became Chief of Staff, another reward for his spectacular Chicago flight. Benito's other favorite, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, returned to his old post as Foreign Minister...
Since Il Papa and Il Duce settled their differences with the Lateran Treaty (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929, et ante), His Holiness has had no need to consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
Expecting. Edda, Countess Ciano, 23, ''A-t" daughter of Benito Mussolini (Il Duce's rating-he has one other daughter, Anna Maria); and Count Galeazzo Ciano, 36, former Italian Minister to China: a child, their second; in November...