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Tight-lipped Prime Minister Count Stephan de Bethlen hurried back to Budapest last week from Rome. On his flying visit he had lunched with Il Rex, had talked several times for several hours with Il Duce, once for an hour and a quarter with Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli...
...momentous answer of Il Duce, the editors were permitted to hint, was affirmative. Significance: it would appear that Italy, just now especially piqued by France at the London Naval Conference, has de- cided to strengthen and confirm the ring of "Balkan Allies" which // Duce has been forging with Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Rumania against the French entente with Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia...
...Italian bankers knew that Mr. Simmons had been received in private audience by their King (TIME, April 7), had been afforded every courtesy by Il Duce. They expected him to say something courteous in return. He doubled, tripled their expectations...
Some Italian editors echo Il Duce louder than others, but always loudest is young Editor Mario Carli of L'Impero ("Orders is Orders"). It was he who last year called Austria ''a miserable spitoon" when relations were strained with that country (TIME, April 22). His headline on the Naval Conference last week...
What had happened meanwhile in London was a trifle less dramatic than strangling wolves. Ever since Il Duce rose swashbuckling to power, flames of suspicion have been darting higher each year between France and Italy. Actual volcanic eruption was far off last week. In London all that Signor Grandi actually did was first to have high words with British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson in private, then to send a note around to the hotel of Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...