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...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...
Engaged. Edda Mussolini, approximately 20, A-1 daughter of Italian Premier Benito Mussolini; to Count Galeazzo Ciano, 30, secretary of the Italian Embassy to Vatican City, son of Italian Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano; at Rome. The precise legal conditions of Edda Mussolini's birth must become a legend her father has decreed. He will not let her biography be published. Epically he segregates his five children into two classes, those of his First Series, those of his Second Series. All are of the same mother (TIME, Sept. 16). Edda is a stalwart young woman whose semi-public...
...contra, the Royalists are championed by Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano, who cried recently at Milan: "All Fascists should wear two emblems close to their hearts: the cross of the {reigning} House of Savoy, and the fascio...