Word: signer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Across the Channel in France two onetime French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
...York Times boldly predicted that the Rome reviews would compare Caesar to "Shakespeare, Goethe and Wagner at their best, and with a touch of genius that even these great men did not attain." "It is understood," continued the fimes, "that a relatively new playwright named Benito Mussolini collaborated with Signer Forzano on this opus...
...Venice, Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano met Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia. Result: Yugoslavia agreed to "deepen the faithful collaboration" with Germany and Italy, will probably soon join the Rome-Berlin -Tokyo -Budapest anti - Comintern Pact. A former Little Entente ally of France and signer of the Balkan Pact, Yugoslavia became last week a dead loss to the "Peace Front" of Britain and France...
...Signer Mussolini's smooth answer was that his legionnaires, who had shed blood in the glorious Spanish campaigns, surely could not be expected to depart before they had marched down Madrid's Gran Via and Calle de Alcalá, along with 500,000 Spaniards, in a final salute to El Caudillo. And Italy could surely not be held responsible for Dictator Franco's delays. Last week the British and French began to suspect that Il Duce and El Caudillo were giving them the runaround, that Italian soldiers might remain in Spain just as long as Dictator Mussolini...