Word: cianos
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...treaty to come into force is Dictator Mussolini. With a considerably curtailed wheat crop, with Fascist finances in none-too-good shape, Italy is impatient for the day when she can receive a British loan. So in Rome last week British Ambassador Lord Perth and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, Dictator Mussolini's son-in-law, got together. Lord Perth suggested that the Italian Government use its "discreet influence" with Generalissimo Franco to stop the bombings. Realizing that continued attacks might cause his good English friend to lose his job, Italy's dictator decided to "advise" his Spanish...
...endanger its neutrality. . . . The Swiss Government can therefore be assured that its determination to remain neutral at all times will find a corresponding determination on the part of the German Government to acknowledge and respect this neutrality," wrote Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano replied in almost identical terms...
...occasion, peppered it with such headlines as Goring as a Father of a Family-A Day With Uncle Hermann. Because Field Marshal Goring's first-born is to be named Edda-same as Benito Mussolini's favorite daughter, the wife of Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano-and because the Cianos are great friends of the Gorings, wags cracked that the child had been born to the Berlin-Rome axis...
...alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have asked that Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further conversations between Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Jules Blondel, were temporarily out of the question...
With events at this crucial stage, Prime Minister Chamberlain moved quickly to save the Franco-Italian agreement from complete discard and to save his own Italian pact from collapse. In Rome British Ambassador Lord Perth called on Foreign Minister Ciano, urged him to continue the talks. In London, the Earl of Plymouth was instructed to call the moribund Committee on Non-intervention into session this week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week...