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While Fascismo still paid dividends, Count Galeazzo Ciano supped as well as any. Wedded to Mussolini's daughter, the waspish, predatory Edda, and openly called the heir apparent, he swooped through his duties as Foreign Minister with minimum effort and maximum profit...
Long View. The appointment of Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as Italian envoy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 15) placed him in Vatican circles where he could mingle with envoys of nations at war with Italy. If Italy chooses to bid for peace, Ciano may have a chance to counteract the disgrace of his removal from Mussolini's Foreign Office and, capitalize on his many contacts with Britons and Americans...
Benito Mussolini last week fired his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, the galloping gallant of Fascism, and took to himself the cabinet portfolios of War, Navy, Air, Interior, Foreign Affairs. Said Il Duce, explaining the dismissal of Foreign Minister Ciano and eleven other leading members of the Government...
Fascists' Abortion. U.P.'s Rome Bureau Chief, rotund Reynolds Packard, in his first dispatch from Portugal, reported an abortive attempt by extreme pro-German Fascists to kidnap Mussolini and "elimi-nate" his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano. The Fascist regime, said Packard, is split by one group demanding closer collaboration with Germany and Vichyfrance and another fearful that the closer Italy works with both the slimmer are the chances of Italy's claims on French Tunisia, Djibouti, Savoy and Nice...
...that no amount of chest thumping could counteract. From a symbol of greatness Mussolini by last week had become a laughingstock to millions of Italians. His daughter, Edda Ciano, was aware of the shame, prayed for an hour each day in a Roman cathedral. Her husband, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, appeared everywhere flanked by secret-service men. He was as bitter as the people. "No wonder we blunder," he said. "Mussolini is lovesick-so lovesick he has no time for affairs of state...