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...same time Il Duce's newspapers recalled that Italy had been ejected from Corfu by the League of Nations, that Macedonia had once been a part of the Roman Empire, that the Dalmatian Coast of Yugoslavia had once belonged to the Republic of Venice. Il Duce's probable objective: to force Greece's Premier-Dictator John Metaxas and Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch to go to Rome for an "Italian Salzburg," at which Albania (as nominee for Italy) would get Dalmatia and at least a part of Epirus, Bulgaria would get a corridor to the Aegean...
...Italian purchase, more than twice their normal year's imports from the U. S., scarcely rippled the usually nervous U. S. scrap market. For that II Duce could thank the timely cooperation of that market's most persistent nuisance-Japan. The Japs have bought an average of 1,770,000 tons of U. S. scrap a year for the past three years. Last month they knew that U. S. steel industry operations were rising again, and that steel mills were likely to start bidding for scrap. They knew also that throwing big foreign orders into the market when...
Third strike and out on Mr. Taylor-the Catholic Church's tacit participation in the spoils of Fascist victory-last week became a distinct possibility. To Il Duce went a telegram from 30 Italian Bishops, urging him to crown "the unfailing victory of our Army" by planting the Italian flag over Jerusalem. In England, the Manchester Guardian reported that the Axis powers plan to turn Palestine over to the jurisdiction of the Vatican and transport Palestine's Jewish population to Ethiopia...
...blue African sky his crew of three returned the fire. Holes were sewn down the fuselage of their ship and it caught fire. Down it slid, trailing black oil smoke. It crashed, killing all occupants including the 44-year-old Marshal, most popular candidate to succeed Mussolini as II Duce...
Next day the British Air Ministry solemnly announced that no planes of theirs did any shooting that day over Tobruch. Thus the Italian people were left free to wonder if one of the most popular candidates to succeed II Duce fell under the fire of an Italian Fiat...