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Things had not been going so well with II Duce since he chiseled into the war last summer. By last week he was willing to sell Adolf Hitler his equity in the Balkans for the rescue of his Army from the Greeks. Another Army, or what was left of it, was making dust across Libya, and II Duce was willing to sell France part of his equity in Mare Nostrum for the rescue of that Army from the British. To Spain he was willing to sell another bit of the Mediterranean if Spain would help to close the Strait...
...last week, for the first time, Benito Mussolini took the trouble to meet the man he helped to power in Spain. At II Duce's invitation Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Foreign Minister and brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother...
Spain's Problem. Whatever he may be as a soldier, II Duce is a very good diplomat. He would not have dreamed of going to Franco as a suppliant. Instead, he told El Caudillo some of his friend Adolf Hitler's plans for the conquest of Britain and for the New Order in Europe after the war. El Caudillo was sympathetic. He had nothing but the warmest wishes for the success of the Axis plans. He would like to participate, but there was a little matter of bread...
...attacked joint British-U. S. hopes: "They say Italy will fall away. . . . They have viewed German-Italian relations ac cording to their own standards. When one democracy helps another it demands some thing - military bases or something that it then retains. ... Il Duce and I are neither Jews nor opportunists. When we shake hands it is the handshake of men of honor...
...international press of violent disaffection in Milan, Turin, Trieste, other crowded cities of the industrial North. Emanating mostly from Belgrade, the reports claimed that three unnamed Italian generals had been assassinated, Trieste women had rioted in a breadline, Lloyd Triestino shipyard workers had struck and angrily burlesqued Il Duce, a mob with knives and pistols had attacked Nazi officers in Milan...