Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disappearing Dino. Major mystery of last week's League session: Where did Dino Grandi, dynamic Foreign Minister of Italy, disappear...
...greatly surprised," said M. Briand softly, slumping still further down into his great, squashy leather chair. "You may say, messieurs, that continuation of the negotiations depends, and depends wholly, on Signor Grandi...
...blame? Why have not France and Italy begun those "friendly naval conversations" which were planned by their Chief Delegates at the London Conference when they failed to agree (TIME, March 31, et seq.)? Last week correspondents told Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France that Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy blames him. They quoted Signor Grandi as having said in Rome: "Italy has proposed several times to France to resume the naval discussion, but our proposals so far have remained unanswered...
...statesmen thus flatly contradicted each other. Usually correspondents are blamed for such "mistakes," but last week the two Foreign Ministers seemed content to let their statements stand. With his usual adroitness, however, M. Briand managed to convey the impression that perhaps the real contradicter is neither himself nor Signor Grandi but a third party too potent to mention...
...When Signor Grandi and I parted," said Br'er Briand with a lift of one shaggy eyebrow, "I certainly was under the impression that we had agreed to adopt the most expedient procedure to insure success of the negotiations. . . . Unfortunately a new fact arose. . . . The Leghorn speech was made. Then there was the speech at Florence and finally that at Milan...