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...every dog comes his day, and in Rome last week to Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, quick and smart as any trained poodle, came a day indeed. For a whole year Minister Grandi has been striving mightily to find a way in which Italy and France might adhere to the Hoover-MacDonald Naval Pact-with honor...
...midst of the proceedings Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov quit the Commission last month, denounced Mr. Gibson and the rest as "hypocrites bent on conserving the armaments of their countries!" flounced off to Milan for a secret talk with Italy's Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, finally returned to Moscow leaving Russia represented at Geneva by pensive, hyperintellectual Anatoliy Lunacharsky. (He. as Soviet Commissar of Education, released an "educational film" in which talented Mme Lunacharsky played the role of the seduced heroine...
...France the current theory of Italo-French relations is that Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi is friendly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, is doing his best to keep the "wild man" fairly quiet. Last week's speech by Signore Mussolini was therefore almost ignored by the semi-official Paris Temps. But L'Avenir (organ of the Center) burst out: "The French Government should declare once and for all to the blackshirts and their German friends that we intend to revise nothing whatever! We will no more demolish the Versailles peace treaty to please Mussolini than to satisfy that crazy...
Suddenly, on the day before the Briand-Henderson speeches, Signer Grandi walked out of his Geneva hotel, slipped into his limousine, sped off in the general direction of Rome without notifying any of his fellow diplomats or even the League Secretariat...
These affairs were later whispered to be a "series of secret offers," reputedly exchanged between M. Briand and Signore Grandi at Geneva in an effort to smooth over the "Mediterranean relations" of Italy and France-i.e. Italy's claim to naval parity with France which nearly wrecked the London Conference (TIME. Jan. 27 to April 28), and the French demand that Italian emigrants to Tunis become French citizens. If such vital matters were indeed up for secret discussion before the League convened last week, Signore Grandi was certainly justified in quitting the windy Assembly discussions to report...