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Names. In St. Augustine, Fla., saying "It costa me ten bucks but I like mucha better," Shrimper Tomas DiGrande got permission to change the name of his boat from Il Duce to Diana. In Chicago, House Painter Samuel Joshua Hitler asked to have his name changed to Gitler. In Hartford, Conn., Arnold Alvin De Ribbentrop, asked to be called Robinson...
...able Rome representative of his paper to be told in the past 27 months he must go. Fascist officials found genial Tennessean Whitaker's dispatches "displeasing." They could not have liked much better the Daily News's general treatment of Fascist Italy and of Benito Mussolini. Il Duce was recently cartooned in the News puking over the side of a ship into the Mediterranean while the Führer rushes up with a trayful of seasickly dishes tagged "Spanish Hot Tamales, Greece, Turkey, Hungarian Goulash." The Daily News announced that it will send no replacement to Rome, will...
Benito Mussolini's optimism in the face of this continuing difficulty in Albania, and even after the Libyan tragedy, arose from one thing alone-Adolf Hitler's help. About this help II Duce made one very significant statement. He referred to "German air and armored detachments now in the Mediterranean." Every one had known about the air assistance, but the presence of German armored units in the area was news. These units could not very well have been transferred across the Mediterranean, which is Britain's lake, to Libya. They were doubtless in the Mediterranean area...
...keep the people from starving is going to Spain through the British blockade, both from the U. S. and from Argentina. Much as General Franco may lean toward Germany and Italy ideologically, for the moment food is as important to him as friendship. He hoped his good friend II Duce understood that...
...Duce did. After some more conversation, of which no word leaked out, the three men emerged from their conference with faces wreathed in smiles. What they had cooked up was anybody's guess, but a good one was that Spain would continue to trade neutrality to Britain for bread until Britain looks nearly beaten. Then, if that time ever comes, Spain will step...