Word: ciano
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...mines of political and human interest news long sealed by dictatorial censorship, but the digging has been difficult. In Italy, reports have been sharply restricted by military censorship. The ablest reports to date have come from the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, whose stories on the Ciano execution (TIME, July 10) and the Matteotti murder (TIME, Aug. 7) stirred international interest. Other political writers who have begun to clear the picture of Europe under Fascism are the U.P.'s Reynolds and Eleanor Packard, I.N.S.'s Mike Chinigo, A.P.'s Edward Kennedy, New York Herald...
From Voltaire to Lenin, Europe's political exiles have found a haven in Switzerland. Recent notable refugees: Novelist Thomas Mann, running away from the Nazis in 1933; Countess Galeazzo (Edda Mussolini) Ciano, running away from the Allies and Nazis this year...
...real shooting began. Welles had no authority to commit the U.S. to war, but he managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes shut save...
...perhaps even my own, but it is well, provided that Italy live." Eighteen Councilors, including five in custody, were sentenced to death (one got 30 years). The condemned at first did not take the sentence seriously. Italians do not believe in executions, least of all for political reasons, and Ciano was, after all, Mussolini's son-in-law and former Foreign Minister. But the priests came and the prisoners realized that they were to die. Ciano agreed to sign a petition to the Duce. A courier flew to Lake Garda, where Mussolini was staying. But that night...
...that pictures could be made, the five were shot at 9 a.m. instead of at dawn. Ciano, the last to be executed, had collapsed during the night. He had to be dragged between two militiamen and placed astride a chair withhis back to the firing squad. The volunteer firing squad was nervous and shot badly, which may account for the story that someone had bribed his executioners...