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...Peace has been the constant object of Il Duce's policy: a political, social and economic peace among citizens, classes and groups, a religious peace and a peace among nations and states; a loyal and not a deceitful peace; an operating and not a static peace because it is aimed at preserving men and nations; a peace founded on truth. . . . [The agreement] represents a victory for no particular nation, but a victory for all the nations, a victory for equity and good sense, which is no less important in the relations between na- tions as in the relations between individuals...
Every time Signer Grandi almost had the problem solved, bang would go something or someone-frequently Dictator Benito Mussolini. Two months ago, however, II Duce radioed to the World his basic love of Peace (TIME, Jan. 26). He has kept quiet ever since. Signor Grandi, working quietly with British and French undersecretaries, finally reached the point where he could bring to Rome last week in the role of "honest brokers" British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini...
...Dino's Day last week was a triumph for the little-known Italian statesman, best friend of II Duce. By a masterful mixture of persuading and consenting, he had made it possible for France and Italy to live for a long time in peace, if their parliaments will ratify...
Odds-on bets on the subject of the fiery dictator's drama would probably not disappoint their backer. "Campo di Maggio," Il Duce's brain-child, is being given in Hungary as "The Hundred Days." That Mussolini's favorite hero, the Little Corporal, will hold the center of the stage is not to be doubted. The choice of subject has its advantages. If the artistic merits of the play should prove incapable of raising it above the waters of Lethe, it will at all events be kept above the waves by half a dozen lines in the bibliography of works...
With his boy's pen Master Bruno dashed off a short story, "The Vessel of the Dead." Hair raising, it resembles (except for lack of sex motive) Il Duce's own lurid serial The Cardinal's Mistress,* penned while he was helping to edit a Socialist sheet...