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Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, having roamed over Europe trying to find partners for a colony-grabbing expedition, was said to have failed lamentably. As for France, she had recovered not only her financial stability but her political unity...
...Pilsudski game for all it was worth. Having recently visited Führer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready to cut Poland in for some of France's colonies...
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano was asked by British Ambassador Lord Perth to explain Italian reinforcements in Libya, which lies between Egypt and French Tunisia. To Lord Perth this was a violation of the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April. Count Ciano admitted that the Libyan garrison had been doubled from 30,000 to 60,000 men, that even more might be sent. His reasons: the French had concentrated 200,000 men in Tunisia. French estimate of French and native troops in Tunisia...
...upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel. There, dwarfed by the surging figures of Michelangelo's vast Last Judgment, the Pope lay in state while dignitaries of the Church, diplomats. Crown Prince Umberto (for the Italian royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square, began filing past his bier. There began the novemdiali, nine days of papal funeral rites, on the fourth...
...understand why Roosevelt pushes his country toward war. He is a man of catastrophe, he is a man of ill luck, and he wants to bring ill luck to America." To U. S. Ambassador William Phillips this seemed a bit too much. He protested to Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Result: continued front-page anti-U. S. editorials in almost every Italian newspaper...