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Once more the dark round table in Munich's white marble Fiihrerhaus held four pairs of elbows - but the other two belonged to Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Once more the world waited with bated breath for news of their decision - but that decision meant far more than war or peace in the time of a septuagenarian. This week the men at the round table in Munich intended to settle Europe's destiny until times unforeseeable...
...Italian colonies was "dangerous." The 1942 Universal Exposition was indefinitely postponed. Against the shedding of blood, doctors, surgeons, pharmacists were conscripted. Several writers, including influential Virginio Gayda, even began angrily huffing and puffing in the direction of the U. S. (Gayda later backed down). ¶ Telegrafo, Count Galeazzo Ciano's newspaper, said that with the elimination of France from the field of battle, Italy and Germany would annihilate Great Britain "The second phase of the war." This declaration led to the supposition that II Duce would wait for the end of the Battle of France before plunging...
...thousand more noncommissioned officers were called to their regiments, soldiers in full equipment marched through border towns, railroad stations clanged with freight cars moving artillery and munitions northwest toward the frontier of France. At week's end Editor Giovanni Ansaldo of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's Leghorn newspaper Il Telegrafo broadcast word to the troops that the quiet mobilization that had been going on for several weeks was mobilization for war. As to Italy's reasons for going to war, Editor Ansaldo, in addition to those of territorial aggrandizement, put forth a unique reason. "How could...
Within one hour of this announcement, Franklin Roosevelt instructed lanky, prim William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, to call on Premier Mussolini. Afterwards Ambassador Phillips saw Foreign Minister Ciano twice. And in Washington the Italian Ambassador. Prince Ascanio Colonna, visited Under Secretary of State Welles and both stalked up the street, flecked with the shadows of spring foliage, to call on the President...
...went to war. But that would have been no news to Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when Ambassador Phillips had his third meeting of the week with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and, in Washington, President Roosevelt received Italian Ambassador Prince Ascanio Colonna. Benito Mussolini was reported to have sent this message to Franklin Roosevelt: "Does the United States understand my position...