Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Statesman Stimson, Signer Grandi and German Chancellor Heinrich Briining were already in Geneva the world Press treated its readers to such headlines as SURPRISE 5-POWER PARLEY.* What did it all mean? In Geneva one of the first things reported by correspondents was the behavior of Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson (the former Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn.) as she was escorted into the Geneva Disarmament Conference Building by Mr. MacDonald...
Peace & Pigs! The surprise of the "Surprise Conference" proved to be that there was no Stimson-MacDonald-Tardieu-Bruning-Grandi conference last week, the whole thing turning into a somewhat comic false alarm. Premier Tardieu's sudden dash turned out to be the result of a misunderstanding which led the Frenchman to think that Britain and the U. S. were going to maneuver the Conference into excluding from discussion the Tardieu Plan (TIME. Feb. 15) of creating a world police force to be managed by the League of Nations. Upon actually reaching Geneva, M. Tardieu found Messrs. Stimson...
...distressed to see their Prime Minister's optimism wither and fade a few hours after he had made welcome, in the cream & gold Cabinet Room at No. 10 Downing St., the members of the Danube Conference at which Britain, France, Germany and Italy sat in. Plainly, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, snapping-eyed Italian Foreign Minister, was smoldering with anger and so was Germany's Dr. Bernhard W. von Bülow, a nephew of the late great Prince & Chancellor. Honest Scot MacDonald was made from the first to feel that his prior conversations with Premier Tardieu had been in the worst...
Loud, prompt, irate were the objections of Italy's Grandi and Germany's von Bülow. They argued that "in fairness" Bulgaria must be rescued too; they complained that, since most of the $40,000,000 would have to be loaned by France, this lending would be "political" and would extend French power down the Danube; finally they called "unworkable and impractical" the proposed inter-Danubian tariff slash...
...finish!" cried Signer Grandi, quitting Downing Street. "We've all done our best, but it's the finish...