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Last week Edda Ciano's husband, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, paid an official visit to Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain. The Countess for once did not go along. The Countess' father, Il Duce, was summering in central Italy at Rocca delle Caminate, still keeping the vow of silence he publicly took at Cuneo, in northern Italy, last May. Edda herself was at the island of Capri, across from the Bay of Naples, supervising the building of a villa at her (and the late Emperor Tiberius') favorite recreation spot...
Some said that old Costanzo Ciano, who was made an Admiral and a Count after the World War during which he stole into an enemy harbor and sank six Austrian cruisers, arranged the Edda Mussolini-Galeazzo Ciano marriage in 1930. At least, before the marriage the Ciano family fortune was small but when the old man died three weeks ago it was estimated one of the greatest in Italy. Before his marriage Galeazzo was another of those golden lads who liked to hang around the Excelsior and Grand Hotels in Rome, where rich U. S. heiresses generally stayed...
...China, where he was first Consul General at Shanghai, then Minister to China. Recalled to Italy in 1933, he became Under Secretary of State, then Minister for Press & Propaganda, and it began to appear that Edda, the apple of Il Duce's eye, could get for Husband Galeazzo just about any job she wished...
...ordering more warplanes from the U. S., Britain's guaranteeing another country's security, Poland's refusal to give up Danzig. What pained Germany and Italy this time, however, was French and British indifference at the German-Italian military alliance (TIME, May 15), which Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop ceremoniously signed at Berlin...
...score of pact-seeking: four acceptances (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark) and four rejections (The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland). None of these acceptances or rejections, however, held anything like the importance of a pact-signing that took place in Berlin early this week. There Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop put their names to a ten-year treaty which seemed to outsiders not so much a pact of non-aggression as one of aggression...