Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pair off with Secretaries of State. When Britain's MacDonald and France's Laval visited the White House, it was President Hoover who joined each in a public statement of thing accomplished. Last week it was Secretary of State Stimson's part to collaborate with Dino Grandi in the above summary of the Italian Foreign Minister's three-day round of Capital conversations...
...brisk, bearded young Italian, President Hoover opened the White House doors as wide as ever he did to a head-of-state. Four times Signer Grandi passed through the glass portals-once for a courteous "Excellency! Excellency!," once for a respectful "A rivederci," once for a great State dinner in his honor and once for a long private talk with the President. In the Lincoln Study three easy chairs were pulled before the fireplace. Into them sank Messrs. Hoover, Grandi & Stimson. Because of the Foreign Minister's good command of English, no interpreter was necessary...
...Minister Grandi had no gaudy achievements to take back for a Roman holiday he did carry in his diplomatic luggage intangibles hardly less valuable-a personal friendship with a U. S. President, glowing goodwill from Press and Public, a better understanding of U. S. intentions. Because these things were hard to write about, because Secretary Stimson made them even more intangible in his lawyer-like announcement, a sector...
Press grew suspicious, began to yammer in bad temper about "cautious secrecy." To some editors it was inconceivable that nothing concrete was accomplished behind all the elaborate atmosphere of Washington cordiality. But in this case good atmosphere was all Signor Grandi wanted...
...visits of Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Grandi to this country are a clear proof, if further proof is necessary, that in the modern structure of the world American isolation is an impossibility. We are in the midst of world affairs and we find it increasingly necessary to act in close co-operation with other States. When these visits are taken in conjunction with the relation that has been established between the United States and the League in connection with the Manchurian dispute it becomes evident that the United States has in large part already abandoned any strictly isolationist policy...