Frenchmen are still submitting to the "peeping" of German planes coasting along their secretly built frontier defenses (TIME, May 6), but six Italian pursuit planes rocketed up last week when a German ship tried to peep at Benito Mussolini's so-called "Air Gibraltar," the great military airport on Italy's northern frontier near Sesto Calende.
After the maneuver airmen call a "dog fight," Il Duce's diving, threatening, corner-cutting planes scared the Nazi pilot into a forced landing, seized two German long-range telescopic cameras. While several Milan correspondents vouched for this news, the Dictator's...
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