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Window-Dressers Benito Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain have been intimately corresponding for months (TIME, Aug. 9). It was clearly no accident that the Italian Premier suddenly agreed last week to a British scheme of July 14 which had seemed as dead as Queen Anne. Spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, on orders from Rome, brought the moribund Non-intervention Committee to life by making this "concession'' to the British last week in concert with the German Delegate, Dr. Ernst Woermann -for Adolf Hitler had also suddenly discovered that he no longer objects to the British scheme of July...
...press II Duce's advantage too hard, Italy's Ambassador in London, chin-tufted Dino Grandi announced last week that Italy was not "unalterably" opposed to withdrawing her "volunteers." Italy was willing, said he, to make a "symbolic recall" of approximately 5,000 men-IF belligerent rights were awarded General Franco at once, and IF an equivalent number of foreign volunteers were withdrawn from the Leftist armdes at the same time...
...great was the Cabinet's anxiety that it decided Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden must swallow his Yorkshire pride, ask Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi to transmit a "personal appeal" to Premier Mussolini to keep the Bari station quiet about partition of Palestine. Since elegant Mr. Eden two years ago had an encounter with the Dictator at which they exchanged high words and parted on terms of mutual contempt (TIME, July 8, 1935), the Personal sacrifice asked of the young British Foreign Secretary last week was great. Count Grandi few days later brought the British Cabinet an especially courteous cable...
...will break it?' I am sorry to say that during the last few months Germany has done her best to justify that criticism. . . . We sit around and hold meetings of the Non-intervention Committee, and I have no doubt that the German Ambassador [Ribbentrop] and the Italian Ambassador [Grandi] regard it as a great joke. . . . Is this cruel imposture going on any longer...
Tuesday marked the useful end of the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee. At London Ambassador Grandi read the death sentence--that Italy will not withdraw her troops while the war continues, and Premier Mussolini threw the switch in a statement at Rome instructing editors that Italy will not permit the government forces to prevail. Such an attitude by one country makes impossible any attempt to check effectively the support others are giving to the war. Once it was hoped that the bloodshed in Spain could be lessened by the withdrawal of foreign soldiers, a hope now almost dead. There remains...