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While Fascismo still paid dividends, Count Galeazzo Ciano supped as well as any. Wedded to Mussolini's daughter, the waspish, predatory Edda, and openly called the heir apparent, he swooped through his duties as Foreign Minister with minimum effort and maximum profit...
...Ciano was no fool. He saw the writing on the wall well ahead of the other stal warts of the Fascist hierarchy, began making quiet plans to save himself. His solicitude cost him the favor of the Nazis, later the trust of his fellow-Fascists. Mussolini took over the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, made his son-in-law Ambassador to the Vatican. But he let Ciano save face with a seat on the Fascist Grand Council, and it was there that Ciano pulled down his house of cards about his ears: when the Council voted to oust Mussolini last July...
This week in Verona, capital of the Nazi manipulated Fascist "Republic," Ciano was condemned to death by a puppet court, shot next...
Long View. The appointment of Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as Italian envoy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 15) placed him in Vatican circles where he could mingle with envoys of nations at war with Italy. If Italy chooses to bid for peace, Ciano may have a chance to counteract the disgrace of his removal from Mussolini's Foreign Office and, capitalize on his many contacts with Britons and Americans...
Rome rumored that Mussolini had nipped a plot to make Ciano a Darlan. Another reported that Mussolini had dispatched elegant Crown Prince Umberto to command Italian divisions on the Russian front in order to thwart a clerical fascist peace move centering around the haggard House of Savoy...