Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Utter Failure!" Stepping out of the seaplane Italy's round-eyed, bearded young Air Minister, General Italo Balbo, made straight for the Conference. A soldier, a fighter, he came to speak for Benito Mussolini who had just ousted his suave, diplomatic Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and occupied the Italian Foreign Office himself. Striding into the Conference bearded General Balbo lisped...
Last week rule No. 2 was worked. Bearded Dino Grandi, for three years Foreign Minister, and Minister of Corporations Giuseppe Bottai were removed from office. Il Duce himself took over both their portfolios, the first of which he has held before. The move was particularly surprising to U. S. readers. Only two days prior they had read in the New York Times Biographer Emil Ludwig's interview with Mussolini in which Il Duce had said...
...have tried to attract men and put them to the test. There is already a ruling class of excellent minds; for example: Grandi, Balbo, Bottai and Arpinati...
Knowing observers realized some weeks ago that it was nearly time for another Fascist shift, and last week came particular reason for Il Duce to be displeased with his Foreign Minister. Dino Grandi was a delegate to Lausanne, yet the Franco-British Accord de Confiance was apparently as much of a surprise to him as it was to editors in the U. S. The accord contained a joker particularly unpleasant to Italy: a deeply buried hint of Franco-British naval accord in the Mediterranean. Benito Mussolini dealt gently with his deposed Grandi. Day after his removal was announced, Grandi...
...President and Gentlemen," cried Signer Grandi, "I have been able to communicate to the head of my government the contents of President Hoover's message and wish to make the following brief statement: Italy accepts entirely and in all its parts the disarmament plan submitted by the American Delegation...