Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dino Grandi--Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, invited to conference with President Hoover...
...than eye each other and feel that they knew each other better. For President Hoover it was a chance to see at close range and in virile, bristling reality the neat little black beard which is the international tag of Italy's young Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dino Grandi. The latter, in turn, could study at close range the greying hair, chubby cheeks and pleasant squint of the man to whom Europe's statesmen have been coming in procession with their plans and problems. Italy was joining that procession merely to create goodwill and keep her place...
...scope of my visit here is to offer the Italian contribution to the common work for the common good." Washington officials expected practically no concrete results to spring from Minister Grandi's three-day visit at the Capital...
...State Department had been panicky lest anti-Fascist demonstrations mar Signer Grandi's reception. A plan to have him flown from New York harbor by Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was canceled because of bad weather. In clothes grey as the encircling fog. Minister Grandi & party were taken off the S. S. Conte Grande at Quarantine in a tug, hustled over to a Pennsylvania R. R. pier in Jersey City to a special train. Everywhere were armed guards, special agents, railroad detectives to suppress any hostility. None occurred...
This conference between Hoover and Grandi is not an attempt to offset the influence of Laval, but rather, like Laval's visit itself, an effort to bring about a better understanding between nations by mutual and unhampered discussion...