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...people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...
...Edda Mussolini, grew up her father's pal. Since a Dictator can do more for a pal than a mere statesman, Edda made her debut with a tour of the Far East on which she was showered with gifts by many a potentate, later married baby-faced Count Galeazzo Ciano who was promptly advanced through Italy's diplomatic service, and gradually promoted to his present rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda...
...getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change to BRITISH FEAR WAR IN AFRICA AS EDEN FAILS IN ROME and EDEN UNABLE TO TURN DUCE FROM DESIGNS ON ETHIOPIA...
Quickly Dr. Schuschnigg was whisked off by Il Duce to the Villa de Marinis, to sit at a long elaborate luncheon with 14 Fascist bigwigs. At the same time Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, herded foreign correspondents into the Florentine prefecture, repeated over and over again that there would be no discussion of the restoration of Archduke Otto in Austria. He handed out an official communique. Excerpts...
...profession. Last week Manhattan's anti-Fascist daily La Stampa Libera was able to publish copies of a smuggled series of daily orders released to the Press of Italy last summer from the Dictator's press bureau whose head is now his handsome son-in-law. Count Galeazzo Ciano. To a Fascist the orders would seem merely right & proper. To U. S. newspaperdom, resentful of even the slightest shadow of encroachment upon its freedom by the NRA, they seemed the acme of outrageous despotism...