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...Rome he drives a roaring Alfa-Romeo five-passenger sedan and Edda's friends go to him when they want a traffic ticket torn up. At 6:30 p.m. each day Foreign Minister Count Ciano stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously...
...propaganda neither Edda nor Galeazzo saw much future. When Il Duce got ready to start a war, they did, however, see that Count Ciano as an aviator dropped the first bombs, and was the first Italian to alight in Addis Ababa. He and the Dictator's two bombing sons did so well at making headlines for themselves that Father Mussolini ordered that they never be mentioned again in this connection, lest they get swelled heads. Ciano, according to brother aviators, is an in different pilot, but recklessly brave. He eats more spaghetti, prepared with copious melted butter and cheese...
...Ciano 6 Hitler-A diplomat can seldom do anything in the glare of publicity which he has not previously arranged in private, and last week Baron von Neurath and Count Ciano merely went over in Berlin the understandings to which Italy and Germany have come in recent weeks, more or less secretly. A special sleeping-car train then took them to Berchtesgaden, whence they drove to the chalet Haus Wachenfeld, the Bavarian snuggery of Der Führer. Corporal Hitler, in a plain brown tunic with a large swastika just above the left elbow, saluted General Ciano who returned...
...springing what Nazis call his "Saturday surprises." Abruptly Der Führer sprang a public announcement of the first of five points of agreement secretly reached between Germany and Italy. "The Führer and Chancellor," he disclosed, "has informed the royal Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Ciano . . . that the Reich Government has decided formally to recognize the Italian Empire in Ethiopia...
While the staffs of Dictator Hitler and Count Ciano busied themselves drafting a further public announcement, Der Führer said good-by to the Foreign Minister and he was driven to Munich ("The Capital of the National Socialist Movement") for afternoon parades and evening torchlight demonstrations. Son-in-law Ciano laid a wreath on the steps of the Heroes' Temple in which are buried Storm Troopers killed in bloody German street brawls before the Nazis came to power. He laid another wreath on the monument marking the spot on which Government machine guns in 1923 opened fire...