National Affairs: Mussolini's Man

For what may be his last time President Hoover last week went through the familiar ritual of receiving a foreign ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Into the White House Blue Room where he stood stiffly waiting there marched promptly at 2:15 p. m. the State Department's Warren Delano Robbins and a dark-skinned, bright-eyed little man in a gold-embroidered green uniform. He was Augusto Rosso, Italy's new Ambassador to the U. S.

All three bowed. Declaimed Signer Rosso: "Both our countries are at present highly interested in helping to solve two outstanding international problems: disarmament...

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