Word: signore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatly surprised," said M. Briand softly, slumping still further down into his great, squashy leather chair. "You may say, messieurs, that continuation of the negotiations depends, and depends wholly, on Signor Grandi...
...Italy begun those "friendly naval conversations" which were planned by their Chief Delegates at the London Conference when they failed to agree (TIME, March 31, et seq.)? Last week correspondents told Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France that Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy blames him. They quoted Signor Grandi as having said in Rome: "Italy has proposed several times to France to resume the naval discussion, but our proposals so far have remained unanswered...
...greatest statesmen thus flatly contradicted each other. Usually correspondents are blamed for such "mistakes," but last week the two Foreign Ministers seemed content to let their statements stand. With his usual adroitness, however, M. Briand managed to convey the impression that perhaps the real contradicter is neither himself nor Signor Grandi but a third party too potent to mention...
...When Signor Grandi and I parted," said Br'er Briand with a lift of one shaggy eyebrow, "I certainly was under the impression that we had agreed to adopt the most expedient procedure to insure success of the negotiations. . . . Unfortunately a new fact arose. . . . The Leghorn speech was made. Then there was the speech at Florence and finally that at Milan...
...opportune and justified. ... He had foreknowledge of the military preparations of France [i.e. the inclusion of $40,000,000 for military expenditures in the current French budget]. . . . Nobody in the world can have the colossal impudence to believe (hat the gigantic program of French armaments are in consequence of Signor Mussolini's speeches...