Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi was the most dashing figure on the diplomatic stage and the fair-haired boy of Fascism as well. Then, in a surprise Cabinet shakeup, Dictator Benito Mussolini took away spade-bearded Dino Grandi's portfolio and made himself Foreign Minister. Some thought that Il Duce was miffed at the way Signer Grandi had conducted Italy's side of the negotiations at the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, but a more widely accepted theory was that he had violated Mussolini Commandment...
...Rome, where rich U. S. heiresses generally stayed. He had been a cub reporter and a society journalist who did bits of drama and literary criticism for an obscure Roman sheet. After that his father managed to get him minor posts in the consular and diplomatic service. Few people thought he displayed great ability except that languages came easy...
Observers thought it significant that before the Kiosseivanoff train pulled out for Sofia the Bulgarian Premier and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch issued a joint communiqué emphasizing their countries' "neutrality." Balkan newsmen smelled a Hitler-sponsored Balkan bloc arising, and believed that this Yugoslav-Bulgarian "neutrality" had the blessing of the Rome-Berlin Axis just as Rumanian and Greek "neutrality" was blessed by Britain and France. With Yugoslavia now friendly with Bulgaria, it looked as if the Balkan Entente of Turkey, Greece, Rumania and Yugoslavia, an entente aimed at Bulgaria, was about to fall apart...
...Ragnell said he thought he could. Knowing that her boy would never knowingly accept such a sacrifice, the mother arranged to have him told that his new ears were taken from the victim of an automobile accident. She knew she could conceal the stumps of her ears by covering them with her hair...
Last week the young man and his sweetheart accepted congratulations from their friends: they were engaged to be married. Everyone remarked on what a fine couple they made, though some thought that, for a man, the fiance's ears were a trifle small and delicate...