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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 12, 1940.
MAGAZINE
They Dictate To The Dictators
Mussolini's wife, Donna Rachele, is supreme in her home, where it Duce takes second place. To Russia's all- powerful Stalin his daughter's wishes are commands.
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BENITO MUSSOLINI took the Italian people and trained them to his wishes. The proud King of Italy be haves like an office boy in huls
presence.
But Duce has either been unable or unwilling to Inspire Donna Rachele Massolini to quake or to pose.
Donna Itachele's habit of fe as not changed since the days when she polished glasses in the bar Mussolini's father ran ad- jacent to his blacksmith shop. "Donna" is a title which may be used only by the wife of a man who is entitled to wear the golden collar of the Anmerzinta Order. Mussolini installed his wife in the spacious Villa Tor- lonla, in the outskirts of Rome. It did not appeal to her, so she selected the simple entrance lodge for her living quarters, Here she keeps house for her "Liger" when he returns at night from his day's foray.
Only one Rome journalist has been fortunate enough to get an interview with Donna Rachele. In that interview she definitely stated that her husband may walk like a tiger all day long but he must return home to his supper at oight-thirty like well-behaved cat. Mussolini is said to have told the author of that interview: "If that is the wish of Donan Rachele I must certainly return home like a tame ent."
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ENITO was twenty-five when he woood Rachele, who was nineteen, with his violin. Once Rome newspapers took liberties with his power with the fiddle. Now all Italy considers he is a srent player.
But Donna Rachele has laid the law down, that the "mighty man" must leave his sword, his violin, and his speech- making in the office.
Donna Racheln han-no-desire- to influence her husband's poli ties. But she will brook no rival In her home, which she runs, After fooding the chickens early in the morning she takes a basket, goes through the back street and almost sneaks into n market, where no one makes" a fuas over her. The market. suon know she is a frugal bar- gainer.
Donna Rachele never appears in public with her husband. But her old time friends visit her as though nothing had hap pened to her. And she returns the visits unannounced.
Except in grave emergencies Mussolini comes home to his
at supper
oight-thirty and spends his evenings at home, Even his enemies udmlt his wife never attempts to pull strings On behalf of her friends. She
is known to have helped humble "comrades " of old, but not once has she asked her husband to do favours for them. She socretly assists them out of her own allowance..
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THE NAVIES OF THE WORLD-1
THE GERMAN NAVY.—A conspectus of the Fleet with which the Nazis hope against hope to watch the powerful British Navy through U-Boat and aircraft sinkings of British warships. But the Germans themselves have already lost the "Adimral Graf Spee", a cruiser of the Kohn class and the Gneisenau,
NETHERLANDS NEWS REEL
B know the meaning of freedom.
DETTER than any other race the people of the Netherlands
More than any other race they have fought for their political, religious and economic rights against the oppression of more powerful neighbours.
To-day, by one of history's most curious paradoxes, a nation which has suffered direly from foreign domination owns the third largest overseas empire in the world. To preserve that empire Holland must have peace.
To have peace Holland cannot show preferences and line up with one or other of her more powerful neighbours, for in that case her lands would once more become battlefields. She must have neutrality.
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The maps below give some idea of the vicissitudes through which the Netherlands have passed since the sixteenth century.. First under Spanish domination, later under French rule, the Netherlands have never been free from the fear of being over-
Internal dissension, mainly religious, has played its part in the erratic history of the Netherlands, resulting finally in the setting up of the separate kingdoms of Holland and Belgium in 1830.
But the events of the last few months, and more particu- larly of the last few days. find these two peoples once more united leven if not officially) and far more effectively than in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1815-1830.
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1550 The Netherlands rebut against the 1648 At last, by the Treaty of Munster, 1812 The power of the Dutch has de-
Spanish domination which has per- sisted for 50 years, The Inquisition crushes religious freedom, a Spanish standing army erushes political freedom. The northern pro- vinces unite (Union of Utrecht, 1579) to realst Spain. The Bishoprie of Liepe is an Ecclesiastical State attached to the Holy Em- pire (Germante).
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N evening at home. shaded light sheds a warm, homely glow on the sitting- room of a private flat in the heart of the Soviet citadel.
The lamplight falls on a piano, and on a slim, dark-haired little girl who plays it. In a corner, sunk in Ba mim-chair, a burly man with greying, brushed-back hair, a drooping heavy mous- tache, and lines of worry on his forehead, ́sits listening, with a famway look in his brooding cyes.
The little girl is Svetlann. twelve-year-old daughter of Stalin, dictator to 165,000,000 Russians. The listener is her father,
Only when his daughter plays the piano of an ovening can Stalin for a while forgot his rasponsibilition, the intrigues that surround him, his ill-health and his constant dread of ansas- sination.
Spain recognises the independence
of the Netherlands. Meanwhile the Dutch have made themselves masters of the seas, conducted wars against 'England in 1652 and 166), and also against England and France combined.
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clined, and the Netherlands are overrun by the Napoleonic armies. Louis Napoleon is made King of Holland in 1806, and in 1810 the Netherlands are incorporated in the French Empire.
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1815 Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo. 1830 Racial, political and religious dif- 1914-1918 in August, 1914, German
and as a result of the Second Treaty
of Paris, the northern and southern provinces are united and formed into did Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Orange family, heredi tary rulers, are recalled from exile.
ferences make the Union unsatis- factory. The southern provinces secede and 4-separate___kingdom,› Belgium, is formed. Later, in 1808, the Duchy of Luxemburg also becomes a separate State,
armier wheel through Belgium and Luxemburg into France to 1914 line (shown on map), remain in Belgium until Armistice (see 2018 line). Holland re- meine neutral,
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