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They Dictate To The Dictators
Mussolini's wife, Donna Rachele, is supreme in her home, whero il Duce takes second place. To Russia's all- powerful Stalin his daughter's
wishes are commands.
BENITO MUSSOLINI took
the Italian people and trained them to his wishes. The proud King of Italy be haves like an office boy in his presence.
But 1 Duce hus either been unable or unwilling to inspire Donna Rachele Mussolini to qunke or to pose.
Donna Rachole's habit of life has not changed since the days when she polished glasses in the bar Mussolini's father ran ad- Jacent to his blacksmith shop. "Donnn" la title which may be used only by the wife of i man who is entitled to wear the golden collar of the Annunziata Order. Mussolint indalled his wife in the spacious Villa Tor- lonia, in the outskirts of Rome, It did not appol to her, so she nelected the simple entrance lodge for her Iving quarters. Here the keupa hutine for her "ilger" when he returns at night from his day's forny,
Only one Rome journalist has beon fortunate enough to get an Interview with Donna Rachele. In that interview she definitely stated that her husband may walk like Bigor all day long but he must return home to his supper at eight-thirty like a well-behaved cat. Mussolini is said to have told the author of that interview: "If that is the wish of Donna Rachele i must certainly return home tike a tame cat."
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BENITO was twenty-five when
he woood Rachele, who was aineteen, with hia violin. Once Rome newspapers took libertles with his power with the fiddle.. Now all Italy considers he is a great player.
But Donna Inchele has laid the Inw down, that the "mighty man" must leave his sword, his violin, and his speech- making in the office.
Donna Rachele has to desire. to influence her husband's poli ties. But she will brook no rival in her home, which she runs. After feeding the chickens early In the morning she takes a basket, goes through the back atroots and almost sneaks into a arket, where no one makes a fuss over her. The market- mon know she is à frugal bar- gainer.
Donna Bachele 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 comer home to his supper nt eight-thirty and spends his evenings at home. Even his enemies admit his wife nover attempts to pull strings on behalf of her friends. She in known to have helped humble comrades" of old, but not once has she naked her husband to do favours for them. She socretly assists them out of her own allowance.
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AN evening at home.
A
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. Bunk in norm-chair, a burly man with greying, brushed-back hair, a drooping heavy mour- tache, and lines of worry on hla forchoad, alta listening, with a fatis way look in his brooding oyes.
The little girl is Svetlana, 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 ovoning en Stalin for a while forget his responsibilities, the trigues that surround him, hia Ill-health and his constant droad of asṣDJ; Bluation.
April 12, 1940.
PAGET
THE NAVIES OF THE WORLD-1
WALE BOKA, HUM
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 Spec", a cruiser of the Kohn class and the Gneisenau.
NETHERLANDS NEWS REEL
DETTER than any other race the people of the Netherlands
BETTER any other face the of the Netherlands 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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1550
The Netherlands rebel against the Spanish domination which has per- sisted for 50 years. The Inquisition crushes religious freedom, a Spanish standing army crushes political freedom. The northern pro- pinces unite (Union of Utrecht, 1579) to resist Spain, The Bishopric of Liege is_an Ecclesiastical State attached to the Holy Em- pire (Germanic).
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SEA
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-
run.
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 price more united (even if not officially) and far more effectively than in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1815-1830.
"NO BETHE
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1648 At last, by the Treaty of Munster, 1812
Spain recognises the independence
of the Netherlands. Meanwhile the Dutch have made themselves masters of the seas, conducted wars against England in 1652 and 1664, and also agalust England and France, combined.
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RANCE
The power of the Dutch has de-
clined, and the Netherlands are OVETTUN by the Napoleonie armies. Louts Napoleon is made King of Holland bi 180G, and in 1810 the Netherlands are incorporated
in the French Empire.
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VÄBLODAS
1815 Napoleon La defeated at Waterloo, 1830 Racial, political and religious dif: 1914-1918 n August, 1914, German
and as a result of the Second Treaty
of Paris, the northern and southern provincës are united and formed into the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Grange family, heredi tary rulers, are recalled from crile,
ferences make the Union unsatis factory. The southern provinces accede and a separate kingdom. Belgium, la formed. - Later, in 1808, the Duchy of Luxemburg also
becomes a separate State.
armies wheel through Belgium and Luxenburg into France to 1914 Iine (shown on map), remain in Belgium until Armistice (aze 1918 Une), Holland re- matka neútrát
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