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Died. Contessa Maria Ciano Magistrati, 33, sister of Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano; in Rome...
...Italy's own sincere choice. Nor are there lacking indications that the first cracks in the Rome-Berlin Axis have begun to appear. The belief is prevalent in Italy today that Italy no longer considers herself bound to honor the iron-clad military alliance Foreign Ministers Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop signed so flamboyantly at Berlin late last spring...
...Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi to a lira. Such dissident Fascists as Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, and Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Ambassador to Great Britain, have lined up more or less openly with the Royal Family against such Axis Fascists as Count Ciano, Achille Starace and Roberto Farinacci without being castor oiled. The venerable Marshal Pietro Badoglio has long been identified as the King's man, rather than a Fascist...
Eight weeks ago Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano spent three days with Führer Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, returned with news that plunged Mussolini into profound silence. Last week Count Ciano saw them both again. He also was going to talk "peace." But of this visit little notice was taken; Count Ciano stayed less than 24 hours, returned to Rome having discussed, according to authoritative sources...
...present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though a long one-of becoming the Peacemaker of Europe, and of taking as his commission therefor some Mediterranean and African concessions. With some such proposition Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano flew to Berlin to see Adolf Hitler this week. Abruptly-after barely 24 hours and only one talk with Herr Hitler-he went home again, and the German who saw him off was no proponent of peace: Col. General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces...