For months Benito Mussolini has been mightily displeased with Britain for refusing to recognize fully his conquest of Ethiopia. Sullen antagonism flared into open hostility four days before the Coronation when II Duce, hoping that for once the pen might be mightier than the sword, issued orders and Italian newshawks in London, like a well-drilled Fascist Legion, route-marched for Rome and the entire Italian press clamped down a boycott on British news (TIME, May 17).
Last week the direction of march was reversed. A battalion of Fascist newshawks was marching back to London— not...
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