Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome he drives a roaring Alfa-Romeo five-passenger sedan and Edda's friends go to him when they want a traffic ticket torn up. At 6:30 p.m. each day Foreign Minister Count Ciano stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously...
...Fascism's early days Father Ciano was the first Italian of national prominence to join struggling Editor Benito Mussolini and become a Fascist. Son Galeazzo was a Fascist zealot before he was out of his teens. After a law degree at the University of Rome, he became theatre and book reviewer on Nuovo Paese, the first Fascist newspaper in Rome, fought a duel with a Communist whom he gravely wounded, later signed the fellow up as a Fascist...
...three years after the March on Rome, Count Galeazzo decided to take examinations for the diplomatic service, which he barely passed. Then began his formative training. After routine duty in South America, he went to Peiping where he served under one of Italy's great masters of diplomacy, Daniele Vare, the Minister to China and an eminent student of its lore. During this time Admiral Ciano, with the astuteness of an old campaigner, was on watch in Rome and when he found that Premier Mussolini was about to solve the "Roman Question" by making a treaty with Pope Pius...
...Back in Rome, the Cianos started cutting a social swath and Edda surprised the British colony with the "English" she had learned from U. S. Marine officers' wives in Shanghai. One of the Countess' expressions was "oakie doak." Her husband at this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when...
...them to Berchtesgaden, whence they drove to the chalet Haus Wachenfeld, the Bavarian snuggery of Der Führer. Corporal Hitler, in a plain brown tunic with a large swastika just above the left elbow, saluted General Ciano who returned the salute. They talked for four hours. Simultaneously in Rome congratulatory messages poured in upon King Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena, for the day marked their 40th wedding anniversary...