Word: galeazzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion, peppered it with such headlines as Goring as a Father of a Family-A Day With Uncle Hermann. Because Field Marshal Goring's first-born is to be named Edda-same as Benito Mussolini's favorite daughter, the wife of Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano-and because the Cianos are great friends of the Gorings, wags cracked that the child had been born to the Berlin-Rome axis...
...military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have asked that Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further conversations between Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Jules Blondel, were temporarily out of the question...
...Government finances, the army is Italian-officered and Italy is Albania's best customer. Thus the wedding had to have the official Mussolini O.K., and Il Duce showed that he strongly approved this latest Italian-Hungarian-Albanian tie-up by having his son-in-law. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, interrupt his Franco-Italian talks in Rome to bustle across to Tirana to act as Zog's witness...
Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, was busy inside the Chigi Palace (Foreign Office) signing the Mussolini-Chamberlain pact, text of which came out fortnight ago, with the British Ambassador Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was for 14 years Secretary General to the League of Nations. Unheralded, there was also signed at the same time last week, by Count Ciano, Lord Perth and Egyptian Minister Mustafa El-Sadek Bey, an Italo-British-Egyptian "good-neighbor pact...
Punch readers last week saw Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain watching like a pastoral shepherd the cooing of doves of peace and the gamboling of two spring lambs, respectively the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Italy, Lord Perth, and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law (see cut). To a loudly cheering audience in his native Birmingham last week, the Prime Minister predicted that when the Anglo-Italian Treaty which Perth & Ciano have now negotiated in Rome is made public officially "It will be found that it is not the Prime Minister who has been...