ITALY: Good! Very Good!

Another goal won gloriously by Italians last week justified the electric signs set up in Rome to welcome back Italy's Air Armada from the Chicago Exposition with this blazing boast: . "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached!" (TIME, Aug. 21).

At the Dictator's order a fleet of Italian superliners has been built during the past eight years and merged into the Italian Line. Last week, the largest of these ships, the sleek two-funneled 51,100-ton Rex, fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds,...

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