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Last week, just as the fuss over Major General Smedley Darlington Butler's "Mussolini Speech" had nearly died away. up popped Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. in Los Angeles. Mr. Vanderbilt stated that it was he who had supplied the rambunctious General with the anecdote of Il Duce's alleged hit & run motor drive, for relating which the General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat...
...twisted" by the General, the child was killed, and Il Duce's comment was:"What is one life in the affairs of a state?" The point of the two versions seemed much the same and, in any case, General Butler's lawyer could not recall that he had ever mentioned the Vanderbilt name in connection with the story. But the onetime tabloid publisher spoke of suing General Butler, hinted darkly of the revelations he might make...
...present had been cursing II Duce, but all observed a politic silence before the officers save Pullucca and Pazzerini, who stupidly repeated that they recognized II Duce. . . . The child died the next day, but of the men not 'hide nor hair' has been seen since that time...
...Washington disclosed that one John Collier, earnest, agitating executive of the American Indian Defense Asso ciation, had erred in informing the Senator. Members of the rival Associations on Indian Affairs showed that no official shared Mr. Hagerman's many duties, that his tribal councils were beginning to pro duce results, that the "deal" was a $1,000 sale at public auction of a lease which geologists had declared practically worth less and which the buyer, one E. S. Munoz, thought so little of that he divided it among his creditors in a poker game be fore (very much later...
...League of Nations circles, where such things are watched closely, Il Duce was promptly hailed last week as a great innovator: the first statesman to go over the heads of a foreign government and press, talking Peace directly to a hostile foreign people...