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Long View. The appointment of Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as Italian envoy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 15) placed him in Vatican circles where he could mingle with envoys of nations at war with Italy. If Italy chooses to bid for peace, Ciano may have a chance to counteract the disgrace of his removal from Mussolini's Foreign Office and, capitalize on his many contacts with Britons and Americans...
Caudillo Franco, warns Hamilton, is by no means just another Spanish dictator. "He is a ... Fascist, with unshakable imperialist aims and an intransigence toward the democracies which, unlike Hitler, he has never attempted to disguise. . . . His community of purpose with Hitler and Mussolini has been strengthened by the fact that only the overthrow of France, England and the United States will permit Franco's regime to attain its ambitions in Africa and Latin America. These ambitions are a part of Franco himself and were not wished upon him by Serrano Suñer or anybody else...
Still a playboy at 40, Ciano loves to show off his figure. He built a huge fortune out of Albanian land grabs, corporation shares and the earnings of the Ciano family newspaper, Il Telegrafo. He got his job by marrying Mussolini's viper-lean, predatory daughter, Edda. He was one of the original promoters of the Berlin-Rome Pact. He also strongly urged the Italian attack on Greece...
Rome rumored that Mussolini had nipped a plot to make Ciano a Darlan. Another reported that Mussolini had dispatched elegant Crown Prince Umberto to command Italian divisions on the Russian front in order to thwart a clerical fascist peace move centering around the haggard House of Savoy...
...more likely explanation was that the Germans had ordered the shakeup. Mussolini obviously followed Germany's example last week when he ordered the conscription of all men between the ages of 14 and 70, and women between 14 and 60, to work in war industries...