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...Rome no interpreters were necessary since II Duce speaks fluent English. Premier Mussolini rushed forward and pump-handled his guest vigorously, then accompanied him to the palatial Villa Madama. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano warmly greeted Lord Halifax. There was nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain...
...Frangois-Poncet was kept nailed to his cushioned tribune, smiling, by the protocol which required him to remain until after the Foreign Minister " Son-in-Law Count Galeazzo Ciano had finished a chesty speech...
...until 1920. Italians in 1881, were more numerous in Tunisia than were the French, and if nose-counting, or race is the standard of justice, then Italy has almost as good a claim as France. That Italy would like to press that claim was evident last week when Count Ciano told the French Ambassador that as far as Italy was concerned the 1935 Laval-Mussolini agreement was dead...
...proposal was only one of a number under consideration. Meanwhile, a British commission sent to the Holy Land to report on the workability of partition was laboriously drafting its conclusions, expected to reveal them in three weeks. In Rome, British Ambassador Lord Perth conferred with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano on several topics, one of which was reported to have been the possibility of diverting further Jewish emigration from Europe to Ethiopia, rather than Palestine...
Promptly, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, in a formal note to Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, protested against any discrimination against the 200 U. S. Jews now resident in Italy. Listing the liberties of commerce and worship enjoyed by Italians in the U. S., the note "believed" that "upon further consideration" the Italian Government would not apply these restrictions to U. S. subjects...