Word: ciano
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...took a stroll in the direction of the Chancellery and on the way he ran into a phalanx of plum-cheeked school children, each carrying three paper flags-German, Italian and Japanese. They were on their way to the Chancellery to welcome Italy's Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano...
...flags the children carried, but newspaper correspondents were. For a fortnight they had been led to expect that the big Axis doings which were obviously under way had to do with Don Ramón's country. While German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop conferred with Count Ciano and Benito Mussolini in Rome they had filed Foreign-Office-inspired dispatches about Axis designs on Gibraltar, on the Near East, on Africa-but hardly a line about the Far East. This morning they learned that they had been thoroughly hoaxed. Lean, hollow-eyed Don Ramón had been posted...
...member of the diplomatic corps except slim, suave Saburo Kurusu, who represents Japan in Berlin and has a Nazi-phobe American wife. Just outside a door that leads to the offices of Adolf Hitler a long table had been placed. Ambassador Kurusu sat there, as did Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop. Before them, on the table, lay a thin document in triplicate...
Walrus von Ribbentrop postponed his return to Berlin, spent a whole day ostentatiously sight-seeing with Carpenter Ciano. They lunched at the country club (which used to be a British hangout), lingered in long conversation over coffee...
...same relationship to Europe that South America has to the United States." The Axis idea of how to treat their South America was to divide it up among themselves, perhaps tossing a few crumbs to an Axis-dominated France. Drawing their new map of the continent, Foreign Ministers Ciano and von Ribbentrop awarded North Africa to Italy (with bits for Spain and France), Central Africa to Germany. In the south, they agreed, Germany would recover lost German South-West Africa and the rest of the Union of South Africa would be left free to make its own choice. The joker...