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England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...
...still have profited somewhat, even by the thin veneer of culture, she also leaves out of the question. The article proves nothing except that the whole question of higher education, its advantages and defects, is too broad for one mind too grasp, especially if that mind be more intent on satire than on sympathy...
...became clear that Signor Mussolini's declaration was "defensive," not "offensive," in intent when once there was placed before the passage quoted another which altered, almost reversed its meaning. Correspondents did not quote this key passage in the original transmission, and it only came to light, 48 hours late, when the New York Times had the whole 9,000 word speech cabled at thrifty week-end rates...
Throughout Signer Mussolini's speech, which was promptly hailed by Fascists as great, definitive and prophetic, he was watched by a young girl and a man greatly resembling Premier Mussolini, who sat together in the Diplomatic Gallery. These intent watchers were Dictator Mussolini's daughter, Edda, and brother, Arnaldo. They applauded fiercely when II Duce cried at last...
...murdered by a Chinese during the present Chinese civil war (TIME, April 4), spoke to Manhattan reporters last week about her father, Dr. John E. Williams, who was Vice Chancellor of Nanking University at the time when he was shot in cold blood by a Chinese soldier intent on possessing Dr. Williams' watch...