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Prestige Parity. Meanwhile Italian delegation, silent for weeks, made conciliatory gestures toward the French. In an expansive moment the bearded suave Dino Grandi admitted that Italy did not really need as big a navy as the French, but she had to demand it in order to maintain Fascist prestige. Delicately he hinted that France had a colonial empire in North Africa as large as the U. S. If France would cede a little bit of that to Italy, it would maintain Fascist prestige quite as well as a large navy. The notion was greeted with frigid silence. France replied that...
Because the Naval Conference stood adjourned last week?while France chose a new cabinet (see p. 24), while Dino Grandi was cheered in Rome as he reported on the Conference to Benito Mussolini; and while Japanese voted to keep their old cabinet (see col. 1)?the only naval decision of international importance was made at Washington by President Herbert Hoover...
Spade-bearded Dino Grandi hoped that this procedure would work out as follows: the conference would first decide that France and Italy should stand in a naval ratio of parity. Secondly, when the time came for each nation to announce its needs, France would have to lay her cards on the table before Italy, for the simple reason that the conference procedure is alphabetical and F comes before I. When his turn came, Signer Grandi, already assured of parity with France, already aware of her maximum demands, would simply repeat with a virtuous air Signor Benito Mussolini's old saying...
...Signor Grandi's positive demands, Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France was not afraid to shout "No!" ten times more positively. He was also able to convince Italy that he had the silent backing of Britain and the U. S. Defeated in the first round, Signor Grandi withdrew his demand that ratios and total tonnages come first on the agenda, but saved the face of Signor Mussolini by a voluble oration to the effect that Italy "reserves" these points and will not join in any agreement reached by the conference until they have been settled...
...Dino Grandi, spade-bearded Fascist delegate to the London conference, was the sensation of Mayfair drawing rooms by wearing, with formal evening dress, white collar and tie, a black shirt...