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Hitler grumbled to the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, that the Spanish terms were high, and that whenever during the Civil War he asked for repayment from the Spaniards for his help they promptly transferred the conversation to high, idealistic grounds. He growled: "As a German one feels toward the Spanish almost like a Jew who wants to make business out of the holiest possessions of mankind...
...Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's protestation that he had been a statesman, not a Storm Trooper. Declared the prosecution: he had specifically approved the lynching of Allied flyers, and had labored long and hard to break the world's peace. Introduced as evidence: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Excerpt: " 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I asked him . . . 'what do you want? The Corridor or Danzig?' 'Not any longer,' and he fixed on me those cold Musée Grévin eyes of his. 'We want war.' " (In the dock, Ribbentrop shook...
Home to Jail. In a very different mood was another prominent D.P., haggard Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, widow of the Jate Count Galeazzo Ciano. From her Swiss refuge (a nerve hospital), she had watched the collapse of Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate...
History's shabby discards and their dejected heirs were cashing in on the fact and dialectic of disaster. Diaries, articles and book excerpts by Paul Reynaud, Maurice Gamelin, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Göring and Galeazzo Ciano had already appeared in hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, and there were more to come...
...Chicago Daily News's ballyhoo on its $75,000 pride & joy: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's late son-in-law. Last week 70 U.S. papers, and 25 papers abroad, began printing it. Perhaps no document could have lived up to such advance billing; the Ciano diary did not even come close...