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Suddenly, just as the Hoover program was becoming snagged and snarled, handsome Dino Grandi, Foreign Minister of Italy, stood up, spoke a few crisp words, drew thunderous applause and gallery cheers...
...close our eyes," cried Signer Grandi, "to the fact that hundreds of millions of men throughout the whole world feel that their peace, their daily bread depend on the solution of a few fundamental problems...
...Rome the smoking hot impatience of Benito Mussolini for fewer words and more action at numerous Conferences now facing the Great Powers erupted in a speech to the Italian Senate last week by hazel-eyed, spade-bearded Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, most trusted henchman of the Dictator...
These problems have not yet been solved, declared Signer Grandi, because "statesmen have permitted themselves to be impeded by technicalities." Urging sacrifices all round in the name of world unity "to solve the technical and juridical problems of reparations . . . treaties . . . and disarmament," Signer Grandi exhorted, "We must all set examples! Only thus can the present crisis of confidence be solved...
Dictators have to sit lynx-eyed on the lid, have to stay home. But they have their proxies. Last year President Hoover honored Proxy Dino Grandi, pleased Dictator Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha sent two Proxies to Moscow and Dictator Josef Stalin supremely honored them by ordering the first Soviet reception ever tendered to foreigners in the former ballroom of Tsar Nicholas II the marble White Hall of St. George in the Great Kremlin Palace...