INTERNATIONAL: Castles of Illusion

Two fateful airplanes fascinated Europe last week. One soared up from Rome with Benito Mussolini at the controls and fought its storm-tossed way over the Apennines. Setting the trimotored ship down at last near Dovia di Predappio, his birthplace in the Romagna, Il Duce tossed his flying helmet to a mechanic, drove off to concentrate at his country home on what moves he will make this week on Europe's chessboard when he opens the Stresa Conference.

The other airplane, sent especially from London to Prague last week, picked up at the Czechoslovak capital...

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