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Not their father's pals, but driven and inspired to a diligence typically Fascist, Vittorio and Bruno stand in the Dictators awful "distance." It was not of himself, not of his flesh & blood but of his supremely cherished Italy, which he wills to make a Great Power, that Benito Mussolini lately vowed in addressing his Fascist Senate: "No one can take upon himself the intolerable presumption to dictate to us."
* Mussolini, like Victoria, is also a prude. He abolishes brothels, puts Italian showgirls into modest garments, extinguishes Rome's once brilliant night life, does not drink, smoke or eat meat.
† Too involved and tenuous for most laymen is Italy's claim that she has not violated the Covenant, but not so easily brushed aside is her claim that she did not violate the Kellogg Pact. In adhering to the Pact she claims the same reservations as were made by Britain, in effect that the Pact does not bind where the signatory is obliged to take measures in one of its "spheres of vital interest." Absurd on its face but capable of being upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact, as interpreted by onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg permits almost any act of "self defense" and that Italy did not formally open her campaign against Ethiopia until after the Ethiopian mobilization order.