Foreign News: Sons & Bombers

The fact that Premier Benito Mussolini's second son Bruno had arrived with 23 brand new Savoia-Marchetti S-79 B's, considered among Italy's fastest and best bombers, on the Island of Majorca (TIME, Oct. 11), caused this Rightist base to be furiously strafed last week by three flights of Leftist bombers from Valencia.

Son Bruno, 20, reputedly soon got his hand in bombing Valencia, and in Rome friends of his mother said she had told them: "If I had not been at our country place I would have stopped Bruno from going. He telephoned through to...

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