Word: ciano
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...Ciano. After the Po maneuver's fiasco, Il Duce cleaned house. As his first step, out went his Under Secretaries for War and Air, Alberto Pariani and Giuseppe Valle, because they had concealed the true state of Italy's war machine from their boss. Out went violently pro-German Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace and Minister of Popular Culture (Propaganda) Oboardo Dino Alfieri. These dismissals had the effect of raising the prestige of Il Duce's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who loathed Ribbentrop and Hitler for treating him like a naive youngster...
...leaves the station at some odd minute nobody can remember, had entered Hitler's Chancellery at exactly 11:06 and departed at 12:01, had pulled into the presence of Il Duce at precisely 3:14 and departed at 4:28, had gone off to lunch with Count Ciano at 1:01 and returned to his hotel...
...join Germany and Russia in forming a protective horseshoe around the Balkans, guaranteeing them against war-and perhaps divvying them up at leisure. Following the meeting at Brennero, rumors flew through Berlin that Russia's Molotov would soon go there for a meeting with Italy's Ciano. Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki rushed to Rome to make sure that Hungary's claims on Rumania were considered in any plan to change the Balkan status quo. The Italian press proceeded to play Hitler's game by accusing the Allies of trying to shift...
...charm. In that he has served Germany well. Joachim von Ribbentrop (whom Göring hates) keeps relations smooth with Russia. But in Italy, where Germans are not too well liked, it is Göring who keeps things running with the Mussolinis. (He named his daughter after Edda Ciano.) Neutral diplomats prefer to talk to Göring, rather than to listen to Hitlerian tirades. And the fact that the British Foreign Office always found him willing to listen accounts for the frequency with which his name is mentioned in talk of a new German regime, should Hitler fall...
Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car. A red carpet, flanked by specially provided potted palms pointed...