Word: virginio
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators' Diplomacy" was philosophized upon in Rome by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia. Wrote he of Adolf Hitler's order making Germany's Addis Ababa legation a consulate...
Italy's most acrid editor, Giornale d'Italia's super-Fascist Virginio Gayda, cracked: "The wealth amassed by American Democracy was attained with wars of expansion and conquest during which they exterminated all native races. Nevertheless they have not known how to stamp out gangster crimes, and finally Lindbergh, America's national hero, has been obliged to seek safety for his child in voluntary exile across the Ocean." Terming the President's strictures upon Europe a form of intervention in the Continent's affairs, Signor Gayda ludicrously screeched, "Roosevelt's attempt at American...