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Feeble Alternatives. Only a few non-Fascist political figures, liberal or conservative, have survived Mussolini's more than 20 years of one-man rule. Among the few in Italy are Vittorio Orlando and Ivanoe Bonomi, both pre-Mussolini premiers; bearded Count Dino Grandi, onetime Ambassador to London, and intellectual Giuseppe Bottai, former Minister of Education. All are ineffective and out of touch with the Italian people...
Stooges and Rumors. The other changes put Party nonentities in the places of such men as Count Dino Grandi di Mordano, a moderate who was once Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and Alessandro Pavolini, one of the few Fascist bigwigs with administrative ability...
Spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Foreign Minister, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and most recently Minister of Justice, followed other Cabinet Ministers to the wars last week. British Broadcasting Corp. announced the appointment of his successor as follows...
Italy carries away top honors in The World in Flames with three picture-stealing scenes. The first shows bearded Count Dino Grandi on a visit to Washington in 1931 announcing that "Italy-a wants-a peace-a. Italy-a wants-a cooperation-a anda understanding-a amonga all-a the nations-a of the world-a." The second is Mussolini standing on a speaker's platform puffing, pouting and pleased over the cheers of his people. The third reproduces one of the most tragic and dramatic moments in modern history-Haile Selassie pleading for aid before the League...
...energy is certainly still Gargantuan, and he still keeps tabs on everything and everyone. Last week he conferred with Count Dino Grandi on the codification of labor laws; talked with Hungarian Premier Count Teleki; witnessed experiments with thermite incendiary bombs and defenses against them; rewarded aviators and received journalists who served in the Spanish war; turned the crank of an invention designed to extract iron ore from black sand along the coast near Rome; conferred with Crown Prince Umberto about that half of the Army which the Prince commands...