Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardest working, quickest acting Foreign Minister in Europe is Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed. Last week he: 1) Appointed Edda Mussolini's husband to be Consul General at Shanghai, China; 2) Sought to soothe French statesmen ruffled by Il Duce's warlike outbursts (TIME, June 2) with a proposal that both France and Italy suspend naval building during 1930 and try to reach an accord; 3) Rushed off to Warsaw for a week's confab with Polish statesmen "on matters of trade...
...about time, Signer Benito Mussolini decided last week, that Signer Dino Grandi should become in Italian eyes the hero of the London Conference...
Below, with a Niagara of passionate Italian adjectives, Signer Dino Grandi, black-shirted Chief of the Italian delegation in London, was metaphorically described as strangling the British sea wolf with his right hand while he choked the French land wolf with his left...
What had happened meanwhile in London was a trifle less dramatic than strangling wolves. Ever since Il Duce rose swashbuckling to power, flames of suspicion have been darting higher each year between France and Italy. Actual volcanic eruption was far off last week. In London all that Signor Grandi actually did was first to have high words with British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson in private, then to send a note around to the hotel of Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
...later trumpeting by the Fascist press announced that Signor Grandi had received assurances from M. Briand that France would continue to perform only "friendly acts" so far as Italy is concerned. Whatever this meant, it sufficed to make the blackshirt a homemade Hero...