Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your paragraph of September 18 page 27 reading "Count Antoine de Saint Exupcry, novelist (Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars), War I veteran and France's No. i airman; as a French Army pilot" is inaccurate...
Saint Exupery beside being a first class writer plays the violin well, draws well, plays chess well, is very gifted. Incidentally, I never heard him use his title, probably "no Count, he." I do not think he would consider himself as France's No. i airman, holds no record that I know of, probably "no France's No. i airman, he." However, he is possibly the best known French pilot outside air circles and this due. to his writings, he also is a helluva nice fellow...
Eight weeks ago Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano spent three days with Führer Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, returned with news that plunged Mussolini into profound silence. Last week Count Ciano saw them both again. He also was going to talk "peace." But of this visit little notice was taken; Count Ciano stayed less than 24 hours, returned to Rome having discussed, according to authoritative sources...
...position astride the European fence was growing increasingly uncomfortable last week. The story came out that Benito Mussolini, still under pressure from Great Britain and France to come down off the fence and fight in one lot or the other, was making overtures to Britain by sending Count Dino Grandi back to London (where he used to be Ambassador) to talk things over. That the pressure came not only from abroad was indicated by whispered gossip in Rome that Fascist Secretary Achille Starace had formed a cabal backed by the King, the Army and the peasantry, which would oust...
...state, and present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though a long one-of becoming the Peacemaker of Europe, and of taking as his commission therefor some Mediterranean and African concessions. With some such proposition Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano flew to Berlin to see Adolf Hitler this week. Abruptly-after barely 24 hours and only one talk with Herr Hitler-he went home again, and the German who saw him off was no proponent of peace: Col. General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Supreme Command...