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Scarcely has Premier Laval left America's shores when Signor Dino Grandi, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will arrive. A fiery little man who represents Mussolini, he comes to chat with President Hoover on matters of international interest...
...peace treaties, limitation of armaments preparatory to the Geneva Disarmament Conference next February, and the revision of German war indemnities. He intends to talk quite freely of Italy's stand on all these matters. Fresh from Berlin where he met and talked with the heads of the German government, Grandi will be able to present a different point of view than that of Laval...
...fleet up to its authorized strength. A $767,000,000 Navy League building program was advanced. When President Hoover and Secretary Adams last month began to hack down the Navy's budget, Propagandist Gardiner cried out in pain and protest. The proposal by Italy's Dino Grandi for an all-round suspension of naval building for one year sent him into a statistical spasm...
...nation which sees eye-to-eye with the President in the matter of arms reduction is Italy, which likes to rattle the sword but really cannot afford the martial trappings of a Great Power. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy last week accepted the invitation of Secretary Stimson to go to the White House on Nov. 14 to discuss the world's economic plight. His visit will follow that of Premier Pierre Laval of France, who was to sail for the U. S. Oct. 16. Already on their way to the U. S. were Deputy-Governor Charles Farmer...
After the admission of Mexico there were speeches. Three were important. Dino Grandi, Italy's black-fringed young Foreign Minister, stood up and proposed "that all nations should reach an immediate general agreement with a view to arriving at the suspension of the execution of their new armament programs," at least until the end of the approaching dis armament conference in February. German delegates applauded wildly, but other wise, like most suggestions that the League members should actually do something, the speech was greeted with shocked silence...