ITALY: Grcmdi's Successor

Spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Foreign Minister, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and most recently Minister of Justice, followed other Cabinet Ministers to the wars last week. British Broadcasting Corp. announced the appointment of his successor as follows:

"The new Minister is Signor Benito Mussolini,† who is already well known in Italy as Prime Minister, Chief of the Government, Minister of the Interior, Minister of War, Minister of the Navy and Minister of the Air.

"The new Minister is 58."

† "We have nothing but contempt for those who hate us."

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