Word: ciano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tactic." The German war communique of Saturday, July 27, told of successful air attacks on "port facilities at Cardiff, Aberthoaw and Hastings . . . the railroad junction at Tunbridge Wells and big oil tanks at Thames Haven." Significantly Telegrafo, the Leghorn daily owned by Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, who visited Hitler and Goring in Berlin last fortnight, observed over the weekend: ". . . To those- and they are millions-who are asking, 'When will the great hostilities against the British Isles begin?', yesterday's communique seems to reply, 'But don't you see that it has already begun...
...verdict: total war against Britain or negotiations for peace. Massed in the balcony were more than 100 of the Reich's generals and admirals, sparkling with decorations and gold braid (see p. 25). In the front row of the diplomatic box sat Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano...
They were received at the null Villa Incisa, twelve miles from Rome, by Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Chief of Staff Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Admiral Domenico Cavagnari and General Francesco Pricolo. Although acceptance of Italy's conditions was inevitable, it took the delegates 24 hours to study the terms and discuss them with Bordeaux. Meanwhile the armies still fought...
...During a Ciano speech, Italians began screaming for Corsica, Nice, Tunisia, Suez, Djibouti...
Foreign influences are strong. Brazil has some 3,500,000 Italians and sons-of-Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...