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...world has been watching to see what the Fascisti Premier would do to settle the troubled internal condition of Italy. Immediately upon taking office Signor Mussolini plunged into the Italian struggle against bankruptcy by planning a series of public works on a grand scale. Among his schemes, one which will be watched with great interest by Americans is the forming of a Yellowstone Park in the Italian Alps for the protection of the Alpine birds and animals...
...Italy the Premier's new Park will come barely in time to preserve the European brown bear, which has disappeared almost entirely, even from the district over which it has been the presiding deity, the Swiss canton of Berne. The great European vulture, the lammergeier, which has come down through history with the accumulated guilt of centuries for the crime of killing Aeschylus by dropping on his head a tortoise, is also in danger of extinction...
...loan of a billion and a half dollars to help the struggling mark get on sol'd land is being contemplated. But France pooh-poohs our offers of assistance; she knows that Germany doesn't need it. Only a general German reversal of attitude will clear the skies. Premier Cuno, an honorable man apparently, has foresworn the policy of his predecessors. Said he a week ago: "There is no central force within economic circles strong enough to take the leadership out of the hands of the government under any circumstances. Only an active policy of constructive cooperation can bring...
...hopelessly confused and inert general state of Europe today this long predicted offer of the British Premier's is the first definite move in any direction. For whatever motives advanced. It may prove to be the solvent to clear up the clouded solution...
...Lloyd George is reputed to have said that he would rather be known to history as the premier who settled the Irish question than as the one who defeated Germany. (Though it is fair to add that this statement was made after the war.) And there have been many men to whom an amicable peace between England and Ireland has seemed the "summum bonum". To Cromwell after the Irish had rejected (strange to say) the ideas he strove so eloquently to impress on them, it seemed that they were but devils and irreconcilable papists, and that it was his painful...