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COUNTESS EDDA ·

CIANO, Mussolini's eldest daughter, who has given birth to three chil- dren and the Rome-Berlin Axis during eleven years、 of married life, is seeing her dreams of a great new Roman Empire go up in smoke from the charred ruins in Africa..

She has stumped Europe. for the last five years wearing the family diplo- matic trousers-the most ambitious woman in Eu-

rope.

Her personal vanity has influenced great events.

In Rome the women who dislike her aggressive ways blame her for the present war.

Countess Ciano is Mus- solini's favourite. child. She is different from the podgy Vittorio and Bruno, the fine weather flyers who machine-gunned Ethiopian tribesmen, and Romano and Anna Maria, the younger children. So different that the report has been long current in European capitals that her mother was a Russian woman Socialist who cap- tivated the labour agitator who

was later to rule

Italy.

Her age is doubtful,

At the time of her mar- riage in April 1930 it was given as 19.

Cold-Shouldered SIX years ago Edda was

cold-shouldered by London. Official recep- tions and dinner parties were given for her. She went to Ascot for the Hunt Cup. She did a little sight-seeing. But Mayfair turned fur-coated backs to the visitor. She went back to Rome disgruntled.

She had been made much of by English people during a previous trip to India. The Viceroy, Lord Halifax, then Lord Irwin, had entertained her.

But the heart of the British Empire had not stirred at her arrival. And she did not like it.

A year later, in fateful. 1936, she went to Berlin.

Hitler invited her to. dinner. She sat on his right hand.

Ribbentrop, Goering, and Goebbels attended an- other banquet given for her. She became very friendly with the Goer- ings, who did her the

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April 16, 1941...

By Walt Disney

Ambitious Woman in Europe

Edda-Mother

of the Axis

honour of christening one of their children after her.

Big, blond Nordic es- corts flattered her.

Hitler gave her a signed photograph.

Rudolf Hess handed out long explanations about German-Italian co-opera- tion and painted pictures of a new world order.

Previous Italian rela- tions with Germany had been distinctly cool."

Edda stayed a month in Berlin, and the Nazi chiefs continued to treat her with rather more respect than they would have paid to a princess. She held long conversations with serious-minded Hess.

Then she went home Four months later her husband signed the Axis Treaty with Germany.

"Edda was the mother," said the Berlin wits. "Hess was the father by proxy."

MUSSOLINI'S dictate that

a woman's place is in the home is contradicted every day of the year by Edda's ac tivities,

She has given the State two future soldier sons and ong

housewife-to-be, but unlike

the Queen, the Crown Prin- cess and Mrs Mussolini her- self she has always had'a will of her own to defy father.

Italians believe that she is the only person in the world. since her uncle Arnaldo Mus- solini died, who can in the slightest

way affect Musso-

lini's decisions.

She does not admit it. Once she was asked if she' would like to be his secretary.

"I can help my father best by tenderness," she replied. "I am interested in music and sculpture. Politics leave me indifferent. In the Duce I see only the man who is my father,"

To these remarks Rome socialites use the phrase with which Edda herself surprised Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador-“Aw! Boloney !"

She picked that up in Shanghai. That and less po- lite American slang.

one

At

Mussolini time planned to marry her off to the Crown Prince.

But-that-gentleman-did not share the Dictator's enthusi asm and so Edda, after a spell under Y strict English governess and another at the smartest girls' school in Italy -from which she once ran away-married instead young Cinno.

The

Facts... GALEZZO CIANO then was chiefly known as the son

of his father, who was. Mus- solini's right-hand man. -

The father, now dead, had been chosen by the Fascist Supreme Council as his suc- cessor, should one be needed. He was a man once of small fortune but died one of the richest men in Italy.

The younger Ciano, after a spell as man about town and another as gossip writer for a little-known Italian news- paper, was slowly rising in the Fascist scale. He went to Shanghai after his marriage, but it was not long before he returned to become in due course Foreign Minister.

His wife still professed her Indifference to politica.

"Women." she said,."should not interfere in politica. Their function in Fascist Italy is to have children and live a home life."

But she did come home from London-annoyed with the English.

Sho did come home from Berlin charmed with the Gor- mana,

The Axis was born shortly afterwards.

"There are more ways than one of taking part in diplo macy. Perhaps it is a pity that the British Foreign Of- fice, unlike the elephant, some- times forgets that."**

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Miss Grace Ezra (monthly), $15; J. S. Dunnett (monthly), $20; "In lieu of fine". $50; F. J. Reed, tá; D. G. Day (monthly), $15: A. II. Guinness (monthly), $20; L. E. N. Ryna (monthly), $109; Sale of Stampe per Mrn Black, 83; A. M. Kennedy (monthly) 10: Anonymous, $100. Total $890,140.00

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