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Birth of a son in Shanghai last week to Edda, Countess Ciano (nee Mussolini) made // Duce for the first time a grandparent. Parent Count Ciano is the Italian consul at Shanghai. In Rome last week virile, vigorous Grandpa Mussolini...
Born, To Edda, Countess Ciano (nee Mussolini), eldest child of Il Duce, and Count Galeazzo Ciano; a son; in Shanghai, China, where the Count is Italian Consul General...
...Premier Mussolini's household whispered and nodded wisely to each other. "It's the man in black," they said. They further identified him as Father Tacchi-Venturi, a little-known priest without rank or official authority but a trusted confidant of both Pope Pius XI and Il Duce. Six years ago, some of them remembered, he had been attacked in his study, stabbed in the back. Two years later another priest who looked like him was assassinated. Devious and romantic. Father Tacchi-Venturi has busied himself with the highest diplomacy for the past two months. Last week...
Germany's peripatetic statesmen found the Eternal City bleak but enthusiastic. They had come from Berlin in an ordinary sleeping car. At the Brenner Pass they found a special train of six cars put at their disposal by Premier Mussolini. At the station in Rome, Il Duce was waiting for them, beaming with pleasure, poking his Fascist yes-men in the ribs. The German statesmen were whisked through streets lined with Carabinieri in full dress, past cheering crowds to the Grand Hotel on the Piazza delle Terme. There was only one untoward incident. A group of German tourists...
...lift certain of her emergency restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency to allow Italy to market her surplus crop of oranges and lemons in Germany. Italy agreed to purchase from Germany the same amount of coal she had been receiving as part of her share of reparations. Il Duce arranged liberal German credits. There was much talk about the forthcoming disarmament conference, about which Germany and Italy are supposed to see eye to eye, but an attache at the German Embassy admitted to a reporter friend that these talks had actually been much more indefinite than newspapers had reported...