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Seven years ago 37-year-old Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi was the most dashing figure on the diplomatic stage and the fair-haired boy of Fascism as well. Then, in a surprise Cabinet shakeup, Dictator Benito Mussolini took away spade-bearded Dino Grandi's portfolio and made himself Foreign Minister. Some thought that Il Duce was miffed at the way Signer Grandi had conducted Italy's side of the negotiations at the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, but a more widely accepted theory was that he had violated Mussolini Commandment...
There had been altogether too much discussion, it was said, about who should succeed Il Duce, Dino Grandi or his bearded "twin," Italo Balbo, leader of the famed mass flight to the Chicago Fair. Grandi was "exiled" as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1933 and Hero Balbo was made Governor of Libya, in which hot and barren land he sits to this day. Last week Ambassador Count Grandi was recalled from London to become Minister of Justice, and observers wondered whether he had not again been kicked upstairs...
Like many another Italian War hero, young Dino Grandi had turned to the post-War Fascist movement to satisfy an acquired taste for action. He rose fast and, as Chief of Staff for the Quadrumvirs, stage-managed the March on Rome and Mussolini's meeting with King Vittorio Emmanuele III. In 1929, when he was 34, Dictator Mussolini promoted him from Undersecretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...international conferences, and at Geneva, London, Locarno and other diplomatic stamping grounds, everyone except the French described the young Italian as "dynamic," "charming," "electric," and "captivating." While Il Duce thundered about Mare Nostrum and armed Italy as fast as he could, Diplomat Grandi talked disarmament and assured the world of Italy's peaceful intentions. With the French, rulers of the Geneva roost, he engaged in a never-ending fight for prestige. At the height of his career as Foreign Minister he paid a goodwill visit to the U. S. and chatted amiably with President Hoover and Secretary of State...
...Dino Grandi. Italian Ambassador to Great Britain, two years ago appeared in London wearing a suit made from 48 pints of skimmed milk. Secretary Achille Starace of the Fascist Party decreed that all party flags must be made from "this product of Italian ingenuity" a textile fabric called Lanital, invented in 1935 and introduced in the U. S. last winter (TIME, Dec. 6). Basis of Lanital is casein, the thick substance in sour, skimmed milk from which cottage cheese is made. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Dairy Industry applied for a public-service...