Word: galeazzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand more noncommissioned officers were called to their regiments, soldiers in full equipment marched through border towns, railroad stations clanged with freight cars moving artillery and munitions northwest toward the frontier of France. At week's end Editor Giovanni Ansaldo of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's Leghorn newspaper Il Telegrafo broadcast word to the troops that the quiet mobilization that had been going on for several weeks was mobilization for war. As to Italy's reasons for going to war, Editor Ansaldo, in addition to those of territorial aggrandizement, put forth a unique reason. "How could...
...Italy went to war. But that would have been no news to Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when Ambassador Phillips had his third meeting of the week with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and, in Washington, President Roosevelt received Italian Ambassador Prince Ascanio Colonna. Benito Mussolini was reported to have sent this message to Franklin Roosevelt: "Does the United States understand my position...
...Cremona paper Regime Fascista: "Now we can speak high and loud. . . . It is absurd to think that our country . . . shall not participate in the transformation of the map of Europe and perhaps of the world." In a broadcast to Italian troops at week's end, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, said: "No people in Europe can isolate itself from conflict." Italy, Mouthpiece Ansaldo went on, has been preparing herself "for the occasion and the moment which will be most opportune for it. This occasion and this moment . . . may be much nearer than is believed...
...state of Italy's war machine from their boss. Out went violently pro-German Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace and Minister of Popular Culture (Propaganda) Oboardo Dino Alfieri. These dismissals had the effect of raising the prestige of Il Duce's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who loathed Ribbentrop and Hitler for treating him like a naive youngster in politics, and who won an immense popular following by backing the policy of peace...
Sumner Welles, official U. S. roving factfinder, arrived back in Rome after a trip to Berlin, Paris, London. Without delay he saw Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for 70 minutes, King Vittorio Emanuele for 45, Il Duce for 75. Mr. Welles held his tongue, but postponed his sailing back to the U. S. for a day. U. S. Secretary of State Hull denied in Washington that Mr. Welles had acted as an intermediary in Europe's quarrels...