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...this truth. Only when one is obsessed by impetuosity to forge malicious informations, he is liable to incur blindly in mistakes such as the one you have rushed into by reproducing at p. 23, May 5, a picture of former Governor of Rome, Senator Cremonesi, given as Count Costanzo Ciano, father of the young bridegroom of Premier Mussolini's daughter. TIME would make itself a treat in leaving the Italian affairs in more skilful hands, if events marking the life of Italy-that great country that much taught to humanity in the past and a lot can teach today...
TIME regrets that it was led by International News Photos Inc. into confusing bearded Count Costanzo Ciano with mustachioed Senator Cremonesi...
...Rome tall, somewhat imperious Edda Mussolini, whose dark brown eyes have the snap and fire of Il Duce's own, was marrying Galeazzo Ciano, son of Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano di Cortellazzo?a Fascist comparatively little known outside of Italy. But L'Avenir claimed to have positive information that directly after announcement of the engagement on Feb. 15, 1930 the Fascist Grand Council at Rome appointed Count Costanzo Ciano to be II Duce's successor in the event of the Dictator's resignation or death. If printed by an irresponsible sheet this "exclusive revelation" could be safely ignored...
Next out of the motorcade stepped the morning-coated, silk-hatted bridegroom, deferentially escorting the Countess Costanzo Ciano, his mother. From the third car descended Donna Rachele Mussolini. At a reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...
Married. Edda Mussolini, 19, daughter of Benito Mussolini; and Count Galeazzo Ciano; in Rome...