GERMANY-- ITALY: Springtime for the Dictators

GERMANY— ITALY

Benito Mussolini decided last week that it was time to tell his people about some of the things that had been happening to them. So he did. At almost the same moment the notion struck Adolf Hitler to tell his folk why they were pulling Italy's fish out of the Mediterranean. And so he did. The two speeches were noteworthy not only for the light they shed on the probable course of the war, but also for the light they shed on the personalities of Europe's two Rover Boys.

Benito ("Peace is...

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