Word: signoralli
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Famed in Italy's politics of the past five years are two blackbearded men sometimes called "the twins." The other with the beard is Dino Grandi, onetime Minister of Foreign Affairs. There is a story that when II Duce ousted Signor Grandi from the cabinet last year he simultaneously sent Air Minister Balbo a letter informing him that his "resignation was accepted." Minister Balbo is supposed to have marched straight in upon II Duce, handed back the letter as "sent by mistake." That tale is told by antiFascists to illustrate their belief that Premier Mussolini fears his Air Minister...
...White House innings. Dr. Tomas A. Le Breton, Argentine Ambassador to France, crossed the Atlantic to talk trade agreements with the President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers of the New York Stoats-Zeitung, present as an official greeter, tried to press-muzzle him, the tall square-faced president...
...desire to render homage to Mr. MacDonald for his loyalty as well as to Signor Mussolini. . . . I promise that the Chamber will not separate without a full debate on foreign policy. . . . France fears no menace on any frontier...
...Francisco. Next autumn he will have a ten-week season. To prepare for it he opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have 5,000 operagoers here in San Francisco. They have 20,000 in New York-possibly 80,000 in the whole country. What is that in a population...
During the summer German Biographer Emil Ludwig spent several weeks in daily contact with II Duce, doubtless filled him full of Bismarck, drew from his host some strikingly cynical remarks. Thus Herr Ludwig says that Signor Mussolini said to him: "I do not think that a Duce No. 2 will come-and, if he does, Italy will not endure...