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Foreign Affairs: Count Galeazzo Ciano...
Reports of relevant meetings (occasionally denied) became more & more frequent: Hermann Goring, vacationing in Italy, with Soviet Ambassador to Italy Boris Stein, an avowed plugger for the Pact; Franz von Papen with high officials in Moscow, twice; and, three weeks ago,when all was arranged, Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano with the prospective signer, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Count Ciano went home in a state of high nervous excitement...
...this ethereal haunt there arrived one day last week Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, son-in-law of Il Duce. Already there were German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Rome, the Italian Ambassador to Berlin, sundry legal experts, advisers, retainers. They were to have lunch with the Führer...
...Faces. Unknown in pre-war Spain, but conspicuous all over the country last week, were the amiable Italian features of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who wound up his visit as the anniversary celebration began. Exhilarated after eight days of triumphal speechmaking, tours to battlefields, official visits and intrigue, Count Ciano stayed up till 3 a. m. at a brilliant party given in his honor in the walled Moorish gardens of the Alcazar in Seville-a palace that was once the favored retreat of royalty during Holy Week, a national monument under the Republic-took a warship for home...
...came the Ethiopian War and with it came Galeazzo Ciano's chance to become a hero. He went to Italian East Africa to fly. There he organized the most publicized nights in the East African campaign. His instructors rated him as a very mediocre pilot but he started the war by dropping the first bombs over Aduwa. His plane was the first to be hit by an enemy bullet. He was the first Italian flier to land in Addis Ababa at the war's end. For all this Galeazzo was promoted to the rank of major...