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...Barthou that Mussolini began the secret negotiations which came to a climax last week. The two men never met, dickered through ambassadors. To ensure that nobody should be able to assassinate Pierre Laval on Italian soil last week, his train clicked over tracks guarded every 50 feet by a trim Fascist militiaman who snapped to salute at sight of Excellency Laval and his vivacious daughter José-"Josette" to her adoring papa. As usual Mama Laval remained at home...
Last week the trim white Colonial student houses of Bennington College were locked up tight. Bennington's 230 bright, healthy young women had put their ski trousers away in mothballs and, like all other college students, gone home for the holidays. Unlike the others, the girls of Bennington would not be back for two months. This week each of the 230 will be off to do field work in some part of North America or Europe...
Lasting monuments to the Dictator's greatness are trim, healthful, brand new homes now occupied by 60,000 War veterans on the former Pontine Marshes. So persistent was local belief that it was Death to live on these once malarial lands, that II Duce had to recruit his colonists in distant parts of Italy where the legend of Death was but dimly known. Today middle-class Romans are scrambling for plots on which to build summer homes bordering a pretty lake near one of the new cities in Litoria. The whole project is Benito Mussolini's particular...
...years Soviet officials have driven to Moscow station in sweaters and caps, alighted at Warsaw for a cigaret in trim business suits and descended from their sleepers at Berlin attired in faultless cutaways. In a recent issue of Moscow's famed Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet State, appeared striking evidence that Communist austerity is now crumbling in Russia...
...into Williamsburg, colonial and Revolutionary capital of Virginia. He found a ramshackle, sleepy town, its past glories all but forgotten, its historic buildings fallen to decay. Last week the same sightseer, now President of the U. S., rolled into Williamsburg by special train. This time he found a trim, spacious 18th Century village, complete with cobbled streets, grassy curbs, antique buildings...