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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Edda Ciano's husband, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, paid an official visit to Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain. The Countess for once did not go along. The Countess' father, Il Duce, was summering in central Italy at Rocca delle Caminate, still keeping the vow of silence he publicly took at Cuneo, in northern Italy, last May. Edda herself was at the island of Capri, across from the Bay of Naples, supervising the building of a villa at her (and the late Emperor Tiberius') favorite recreation spot...
...secret has it been that the gaunt, pale-faced Edda is hopeful that her somewhat mediocre young husband may some day become Il Duce II. A possible obstacle is Prince Umberto, who is accepted, rightly or wrongly, as the spearhead of opposition to Axis policies which Count and Countess Ciano champion...
...Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive demand that Italy join the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. He went to the front in 1916 and was soon severely wounded...
...first Fascia di Combattimento, and by the time of the famed March on Rome in 1922 (when Benito took a sleeper to Rome, however) she had grown into an impetuous, violent tempered, but intelligent and alert girl of twelve. So undisciplined was the child at one time that Il Duce gave her a strict English governess by the name of Gibson -the same name as that of an Irishwoman who had tried to pot Il Duce with a revolver in 1926. Sent from one school to another, Edda finally acquired a social and cultural veneer, an expertness on piano...
...after their marriage Count Ciano & wife were packed off to China, where he was first Consul General at Shanghai, then Minister to China. Recalled to Italy in 1933, he became Under Secretary of State, then Minister for Press & Propaganda, and it began to appear that Edda, the apple of Il Duce's eye, could get for Husband Galeazzo just about any job she wished...