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...before the King & Queen) had arrived in Rome, begun to displace other U. S. social arbiters. The handsome call Benito Mussolini made to thank Mrs. Wurts for her present was rich compensation for the fading glory of her last years. Last week her entire estate went to 77 Duce...
...Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired, waved from the alighting seaplane...
...Facts. In Italy Opposition Deputies kept their seats and voted against the Mussolini Government until June 15. 1924, when the "Aventine" Opposition withdrew. Since 1928 Il Duce has had a parliament made up exclusively of yes-men elected by the Italian people whose only alternative is to reject the entire slate of Deputies presented to them as candidates by the Fascist regime...
...Hungary. That Italy is willing to cooperate with Great Britain seems quite logical, in consideration of the facts that the British fleet controls the Mediterranean, that MacDonald is holding out a tempting offer of colonies which Italy never received for her part in the World War, and that 11 Duce has been industriously hating France since he came to power. England's interests in curtailing the French are plain enough. For one thing, London would like to regain its historic role as arbiter of Europe through a position as they key factor in the balance of power. Moreover...
...facial gymnastics give maximum carrying power to the Premier's expressions, permit what he is saying with his face to be seen by people too far away to hear him. Significant shots: 1) the Dictator's completely self-effacing wife standing gracious and well dressed beside Il Duce, who seems genuinely unaware of her existence, at the marriage of their daughter Edda to Count Ciano; 2) Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, paying no visible attention as Premier Mussolini reads to him parts of the Lateran Treaty, and having to be energetically roused and instructed by a young Catholic cleric...