Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently published in London, allots only three short sentences to Daughter Edda: 1) to report her birth; 2) to tell about her marriage; 3) to describe how happy Donna Rachele was at her marriage. When a complete, unexpurgated account of Mussolini's life is finally written, Daughter Edda may, as one of Europe's most successful intriguers and string-pullers, well de serve chapters instead of sentences...
...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...
...spectacle of the Nazi Gestapo operating in Italy, of German instructors and troops in Italian military establishments, of German "tourists" arriving in Italy by droves (some of them never returning), is not palatable to patriotic Latins. When the military alliance between Italy and Germany was signed in Berlin last May and the controlled Italian newspapers carried huge headlines describing the "wave of enthusiasm" spreading over Italy, it could not be detected in the streets. Two days later the country celebrated the 24th anniversary of Italy's entry into the World War against Germany and Austria. Work stopped at noon...
This is no good omen for Edda Ciano's hopes that she and her husband may someday succeed to her father's power. But it is a first-rate demonstration of what a woman can do even in a Fascist world...