Word: cianos
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...Soviet Union. Last week Il Duce was apparently ready to agree with Der Führer that the spread or curtailment of Communist influence in Europe has be come the cardinal question. To see about answering it, Mussolini sent to Berlin his recently-appointed Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, husband of the Dictator's favorite child Edda...
Edda, Countess Ciano once swam two miles out to a warship her father was about to inspect, climbed aboard and made for the Dictator in the guise of a dripping mermaid. For this unseemly conduct she at once received a vigorous verbal dressing-down. High-spirited Edda promptly did a dangerous high-dive off the bridge of the warship, swam, the two miles back to shore, and afterward in private was praised for her spunk by the delighted Dictator. She is the only real intimate of a man now lonely in his greatness. Al though from time to time...
...until 48 hours before a great mass meeting of French radicals was about to force the hand of Premier Leon Blum with demands that his Cabinet rush similar aid to the Spanish Radical armies. At this psychological moment Premier Mussolini had his son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano announce Italy's adherence, with reservations, to the French Cabinet's round robin, not to aid either side in Spain (TIME, Aug. 17). This week Premier Blum was able to enjoy a "diplomatic victory" when the Soviet Union and Germany decreed arms embargoes. Always glad to come...
Meanwhile last week Mussolini and Hitler pursued their diplomacy of acts rather than words. Il Duce's son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano sealed an agreement whereby the onetime German legation at Addis Ababa accredited to the Ethiopian Government is abolished as such and becomes a German consulate, its diplomatic functions passing to the German Embassy in Rome. Amid ensuing international jitters, State Department officials in Washington intimated that it will now be "difficult" for "embarrassed" President Roosevelt to avoid recognizing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...Foreign Minister is chubby-faced Count Galeazzo Ciano, husband of the Dictator's favorite child Edda, perhaps the only living being toward whom Benito Mussolini is somewhat overindulgent, a little soft. She wants her Count to have the glory of being Italian Foreign Minister when it comes about that Sanctions are lifted-and shrewd Benito Mussolini does not want to be his own Foreign Minister in case Italy's great diplomatic offensive fails. If Il Duce was a little soft and sweet to his daughter last week, he abandoned none of his watchful astuteness. Edda herself...