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...that members of the Fascist Party may again belong to the Catholic clubs Azione Cattolica and vice versa. Spurred Italy's rapidly expanding mer chant marine by inducing all the larger Italian lines to merge last week into a new operating trust, the Lloyd Orientale. The mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus making Italy's entire merchant marine a Mussolini-Ciano family affair. Expanded plans...
...their damp stone offices in Whitehall, last week, the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty pondered how to prevent another gassing of the fleet, another explosion of Jack Tar's touchy sense of fair play. Hardboiled, their Lordships reduced the greatest mutiny in 134 years to terms of money. They announced that Jack Tar will not have to take the 25% wage cut he mutinously refused; but he must take, added the Lords of Admiralty...
...first time in my life," she cried, "I saw the Atlantic Fleet given a silent reception at Plymouth! . . . But our gloom soon turned to hope when we got in touch with the men of the lower deck. I spent three days going among them, and never once came across a sailor who realized the consequences of his action. ... It is hard for anybody who does not know the British sailor to realize the simplicity of his point of view, but I assure my friends in America and elsewhere that the British Navy is as safe and sound as ever...
Many a Briton has wanted to know if the Great Mutiny sprang from small Socialist cells or Communist cankers within the Fleet. ''I asked man after man if there had been any organization," declared Lady Astor, "and they all said no, that there had been none...
Reports from British warboats last week were that Jack Tar everywhere took his 10% cut with glum obedience, showed no further symptoms of gas. ¶ First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Austen Chamberlain announced that Admiral Sir Michael Hodges, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, had requested to be relieved because of illness (he was on sick leave during the mutiny); that the King had appointed Vice Admiral Sir John Kelly to succeed...