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Almost any morning even highest officials of the Fascist Party and the Italian Government may read in the papers that Il Duce thinks they should "return to the ranks." Each man named then obediently writes in longhand some such letter as was penned little over a year ago by Augusto Turati, then Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (TIME...
...bevy of ten Southern girls. Everywhere they went Traveler Walter did his best to meet the national celebrities, apparently never failed to get his man. Hindenburg received him, chatted with him a couple of hours. He had an audience with Mussolini, was photographed shaking hands with Il Duce proving he had been there (see cut). The late Sir Thomas Lipton took him racing on the Shamrock V and he watched King George's Britannia lose to them by a drifting length. Lloyd George drove him 45 miles to catch a train, in one hour flat...
...silky white mustache curling up wards. He has the unusual faculty of making casual listeners as enthusiastic about digging as he is, has been known to excite even blase newsmen. Ancient kings he has disinterred he refers to as "my friends," jokes about his duty to intro duce them to modern civilization. The shrewdness of his Colonial van Breestede ancestors undoubtedly had been of service to him in raising money for his projects, but he does it unostentatiously, without selfishness-for Science. In his long career he has written 21 books, many papers, is still writing, compiling...
...Rome the Chamber of Deputies began its autumn session last week. Since there is no Opposition to Il Duce, proceedings were perfunctory. The Chamber got under way with a series of orations by Orator Mussolini and others upon the topic afforded by His Royal Highness the Duke of Aosta (cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele) who died last Fourth of July...
...League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets, King of the Indiscreet...