Word: ciano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner Welles, official U. S. roving factfinder, arrived back in Rome after a trip to Berlin, Paris, London. Without delay he saw Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for 70 minutes, King Vittorio Emanuele for 45, Il Duce for 75. Mr. Welles held his tongue, but postponed his sailing back to the U. S. for a day. U. S. Secretary of State Hull denied in Washington that Mr. Welles had acted as an intermediary in Europe's quarrels...
...above), and Germany and Britain waited with different emotions for the end of the Russo-Finnish war (see p. 19), Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop suddenly announced a visit to Rome. According to one version, it was so sudden that not even Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano knew the Germans were coming until the day before they arrived. Herr Ribbentrop has a bad habit (for the Allies) of signing world-shaking treaties and pacts when he appears in foreign capitals. British diplomats quickly patched up a deal with Italy over the coal, and thus took the wind...
Almost at the frontier Herr Ribbentrop's imposing delegation was suddenly reduced from 30 experts to twelve (not counting the Gestapo men who accompanied him). By the time he saluted his old friend Count Galeazzo Ciano on Rome's station platform Italian newspapers were once more busy declaring that Italy intended to remain "nonbelligerent" at all costs, that the Germans' visit was simply repaying the call Count Ciano made at Berlin last November...
...German Foreign Minister saw Mussolini twice, Count Ciano several times, paid his respects to His Majesty. His visit would have been a complete frost had he not also had a pre-arranged date with Pope Pius XII. Vatican and Nazi relations have long been just about as unfriendly as they could be. They have been even more unpleasant than usual since the Nazis' harsh treatment of Catholics in conquered Poland. The Pope, moreover, has made it pretty clear that on the moral issue he is with the Allies...
This week the conflict went beyond peevishness, developed into a first-class row. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano sent to British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax a stiff, formal note, warning that "the coal in question meets an indispensable need in the life and labor of the Italian people," criticizing Britain's coal blockade system it declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships...