Word: fabrizio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conventions. In Shanghai she picked up much U. S. slang from Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
...Fabrizio, still called in the family "Little Chink.'' Count Ciano, as Italian Consul General in Shanghai, became President of the League of Nations Commission which inquired into Japan's bombardment of Shanghai at a time when "Little Chink" was a babe of five months. Promoted to Minister to China, the Count was sent to the London Economic Conference and. before President Roosevelt wrecked it, Ciano obscurely obtained the Conference's only achievement, an adjustment of Italy's Boxer Rebellion indemnity claims on China to the satisfaction of the Great Powers...