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...great politeness, he had told correspondents that he had nothing to say. At 5 o'clock he had walked the 60-foot stretch of marble floor in the Palazzo Venezia that visitors must cross to approach the desk of Benito Mussolini. His hour's talk with Il Duce (who wore civilian clothes to emphasize that it was an unofficial visit) was followed by a dinner given by the U. S. Ambassador to Rome. He had lunched on the second day with the French and British Ambassadors and had tea with the one from Germany. And then the first...
Thus peevishly-but not too peevishly-Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia grumbled last week at a Great Power with whom Il Duce is engaged in economic horse trading. On the books of Italian firms are Allied orders for munitions and other war supplies totaling over three billion gold lire ($157,893,000). These orders are being filled for Great Britain and France even ahead of the requirements of the Italian Army. Il Duce would like the Allies to buy more Italian food, fewer manufactures, but they want to continue to keep Italian heavy industry...
...Naples with his shipmate, Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, and headed for Rome. Next day sombre Mr. Taylor called on the Papal Secretary of State. Mr. Welles spent 90 minutes with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, spent 60 minutes with a cordial II Duce. On the following day he caught a midnight train to Berlin to see Hitler. Italian newspapers that had almost ignored the envoys' arrival blossomed out about the length and cordiality of Welles-Ciano, Welles-Mussolini talks. And the radio announced officially that Sumner Welles had handed Benito Mussolini...
...Duce's speech before the Fascist Grand Council declaring he misjudged the Soviets...
...idea that led him to construct his first telescope. With the new instrument, which he called cannocchiale ("tubespec-tacles"), he was the first human being to see the satellites of Jupiter, the spots on the sun, the mountains of the moon. In Venice the splendid Doge (Venetian dialect for Duce) puffed up the steps of the Campanile of St. Mark's to take a telescopic gander, immediately doubled Galileo's annual stipend of 500 florins ($30,800 at the 1940 gold price...