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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Mussolini at the Phone Who Is the Man? No Fear in Vatican City A Shot at a IJirtl I Sometliing new In war is Mussolini sitting in Ills oflice at the Palazzo Ven- H ' -v" ft - I $ ! ' ezia in Home, talking talk-ing on a shortwave short-wave radio telephone tele-phone with Gen. Emlllo de Bono, his commander In chief In Ethiopia. Mussolini Musso-lini should have heen photographed ns he received the message, "We have just taken Aduwa, where S,000 of our colonial troops, 0,000 of our Italian troons. were killer! 40 years ago, and Arhar nrlbane Uay ln,Innla(ed That was a proud moment In Mussolini's Musso-lini's life. . After Mussolini gets the news by radio-telephone he telephones it to the Italian king's summer residence. S For a change from war, consider this r incident. Before the entrance to the "Recess club" frequented by Wall Street's "Who's Who," stood Geo'rge C. Halgli, hanker; Matthew S. Sloan, who used to run New York's electric light and now runs the "Knty" railroad, a , learned friend of Mr. Sloan's and this writer. Mr. Sloan said, with finality that marks greatness, "Mr. Blank," mentioning men-tioning the name of a well-known Republican Re-publican candidate, "will be elected In 1936." Your narrator buttonholed the first man passing, a Wall Street denizen, deni-zen, well-dressed, asked him "Who Is Mr. Blank?" mentioning the name of Mr. Sloan's candidate. "Never heard of him. don't know who he is. Who Is he?" the pedestrian pedes-trian replied and went on. Of the next ten, nine would have said, similarly, "Never heard of him," but all ten would have heard of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Republicans must take somebody whose name Is known if they can find him; failing that, they would do well to select him now and see to It that his name Is known before election day comes around. Despite possibilities of widespread bombing of cities If "that war In Etr rope" should come, Vatican City, ruled by the pope, does not consider antl- , bomb defense necessary. Osservatore j ) Romano, representing the Vatican, denies reports that shelters against air raids would be provided In Vatican City. It says: "The Holy Father has reason to believe be-lieve that the dome of St. Peter's, regardless re-gardless of whatever the occasion might be, Is the most Inviolable defense, de-fense, firstly, because of the celestial protection of the Prince of Apostles, for whom the dome Is the sacred sign and symbol, and because Its- mass Indicates In-dicates so clearly the holy place, respected re-spected and venerated during the most obscure centuries That the magnificent building erected by Michelangelo, -with his priceless statues and paintings within It, would be respected by even the most barbarous barbar-ous Invader seems certain. Little things start big things. Doctor Doc-tor Potter, formerly professor of political politi-cal science In the University of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, one of an International com mittee or four that tried to settle a quarrel between Italy and Ethiopia in 1934, says that Italy has good ground for complaint against Ethiopia, and tlwt a soldier's casual shot, at a bird probably caused the present trouble. Mr. Joseph E, Uihleln, an able citizen citi-zen of Milwaukee, who takes information infor-mation with him on his travels and Is therefore able to bring Information back, returns from England with the Impression that, despite greatly Im- proved conditions in Britain, English ' and other Europeans are expecting something unpleasant to happen. What " is, where It will start, what will cause it, nobody is prepared to say, but there Is a feeling of apprehension, 1 vague anticipation of some catas-. trophic event. The President assures the nation "it on tills ocension America will not meddle with what does not concern It. What will the United States do about filing food to Italy, If, through "sane-tlons," "sane-tlons," the League of Nations tries to s'nrve out the Italians, as Germany starved? If a chain is no stronger than Its weakest link the chain that makes up ,he lnminn race is not strong. Authorities In Java report fifty na-; na-; ves of New Guinea, Including seven-teen seven-teen children, arrested as "head-hunt-ws." They got the heads of two nn-t,ye nn-t,ye women and ate the two women. Mussolini spoke to twenty million "nllans gathered In Italy's public -quat-ea. and to the people of the 0Ht'- You could not mistake the '"ea,ll'ig of that voice. wspnper men, gathered near the adio, said : "His voice made the shlv- tlnuIUtl "p and down our uncks' al" "i!?h we could not understand a "I'd of it. Shivers do not often ruD 11 and dnVI1 those Dncg. King Features Syndicate, InOL WNTJ Strvlo. . |