Word: ciano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benito Mussolini of the protruding eyes and loud, guttural noise went to Brennero to confer with Adolf Hitler. It was the sixth time the two dictators had met since World War II began. To this conference they brought not only their Foreign Ministers, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano, but also the chiefs of their high command, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and General Ugo Cavallero. WThat they planned the world would soon know, for each previous meeting has marked a new stage of the war. For the present all that Berlin and Rome announced was "complete agreement...
...Army. The boy raised the stump of his arm and screamed: "We're going to kill Mussolini, the murderer." Whitaker heard another story of a wounded man who rose from his cot in an Albanian hospital and spat in the face of Mussolini's daughter, Countess Ciano...
...Daily News observed that after Correspondents Frank Smothers and Richard Mowrer got their walking papers it "made one final effort to cover Italy by assigning to Rome one of its most experienced and tactful correspondents. . . . Whitaker had won the friendship of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Italian Foreign Minister, Marshals Graziani and Badoglio and other Italian notables. . . . Although Whitaker was strongly democratic in his personal convictions, he was at great pains in his dispatches to reflect Fascist policies and views accurately. . . . Whitaker was frequently denounced as a pro-Fascist in letters from Daily News readers...
Giovanni Ansaldo, editor of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's Leghorn newspaper Telegrafo, discovered last week why Americans do not like Totalitaria. Reason...
...shortage, which it blamed on the British blockade. This week Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, hopped into a car in Madrid and set out for the Italian Riviera to meet Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who undoubtedly would remind the Spaniards of all the favors Italy did for Franco's Spain when Italy seemed bigger potatoes. As Vichy denied Marshal Petain would join the conference, the Frenchman started for a "few days' rest" at his wife's villa, a short drive from...