Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome Foreign Minister Dino Grandi announced...
...that mixed with the morning's mail was an unstamped diplomatic note of the first importance from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. How did it get there? Not through the mail. It was not brought by the Papal Ambassador, for he had not called. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, no Sherlock Holmes, shrugged: "An unseen messenger seems to have brought it?most unusual...
Echoed the Great Man's alert, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed Foreign Minister, Signer Dino Grandi...
Every time Signer Grandi almost had the problem solved, bang would go something or someone-frequently Dictator Benito Mussolini. Two months ago, however, II Duce radioed to the World his basic love of Peace (TIME, Jan. 26). He has kept quiet ever since. Signor Grandi, working quietly with British and French undersecretaries, finally reached the point where he could bring to Rome last week in the role of "honest brokers" British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini...
...delighted," telegraphed Mr. Henderson and M. Briand publicly to Signor Grandi. "With you we congratulate ourselves." In England the honest broking at Rome was widely hailed as the prime achievement of the Labor Government since the London Conference-Scot MacDonald and his cabinet having failed to accomplish nearly everything they have attempted since. In France, however, nearly the whole Press took a show-me attitude. French bankers prepared to loan Italy...