Word: signore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual Hungarian newspapers were kept ignorant of what the secretive Count had done in Rome. But obedient Fascist editors were told they might hint that Count Bethlen had asked Signor Mussolini in substance this question...
What had happened meanwhile in London was a trifle less dramatic than strangling wolves. Ever since Il Duce rose swashbuckling to power, flames of suspicion have been darting higher each year between France and Italy. Actual volcanic eruption was far off last week. In London all that Signor Grandi actually did was first to have high words with British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson in private, then to send a note around to the hotel of Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
...later trumpeting by the Fascist press announced that Signor Grandi had received assurances from M. Briand that France would continue to perform only "friendly acts" so far as Italy is concerned. Whatever this meant, it sufficed to make the blackshirt a homemade Hero...
...cards on the table before Italy, for the simple reason that the conference procedure is alphabetical and F comes before I. When his turn came, Signer Grandi, already assured of parity with France, already aware of her maximum demands, would simply repeat with a virtuous air Signor Benito Mussolini's old saying, repeated at every conference for years, "Italy stands ready to reduce to any common minimum, even the lowest" (TIME, Jan. 27). Thus the blame for maintaining heavy armaments would be shifted neatly and wholly on to France...
...Signor Grandi's positive demands, Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France was not afraid to shout "No!" ten times more positively. He was also able to convince Italy that he had the silent backing of Britain and the U. S. Defeated in the first round, Signor Grandi withdrew his demand that ratios and total tonnages come first on the agenda, but saved the face of Signor Mussolini by a voluble oration to the effect that Italy "reserves" these points and will not join in any agreement reached by the conference until they have been settled...