SOUTHERN THEATRE: Death for Balbo

In a long, camouflage-dappled touring car Benito Mussolini last week ventured, four days after fighting ceased, into the thin slice of Alpine territory which the French, retreating before the Germans, yielded to his soldiers. It was his first visit to French soil since becoming a dictator 18 years ago. More daring last week —and less lucky—was bronze-bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of Mussolini's original Quadrumvirate in 1922, "exiled" since 1933 (when he won great publicity for a mass seaplane flight from Rome to Chicago) as Governor and Military Commander of Libya.

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