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April 16, 1941.

By Walt Disney

Most Ambitious

Co

OUNTESS 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-th-a-t- 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

t

Woman in

Europe

Edda-Mother

of the Axis

honour of christening one of their children after her.

Big, blond Nordic es- corts flattered her.

her a signed Hitler

gave

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 home. is contradicted every day of the year by Edda's ne- tivities.

n woman's place is in the

She has given the State two future soldier sens and one housewife-to-be, but unlike

the Queen, the Crown Prin- ecss 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- volini 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.

At one. time

Mussolini

planned to marry her off to the Crown Prince.

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Miss Grace Ezra (monthly), $15; 2. S. Dunnett (monthly), $20: "In lieu of Bre”, $50; F. J. Reed, 125; D. G. Day (monthly), $15: A. H. Guinness monthly), $20; L. E

·N. Ryan (monthly). $100; Sale of Stamps per Mrs Black, $3; A. M. Kennedy (monthly) 30; Anonymous, $100. Tulal 1000.140.55.

The 5. C. M. Post has received the following donations to the British War Diranisation Fund:

The Kowloon Docks Recreation Club; for 61 Dunstan's. Donations for months i of February and March (32th and 13th), $310.

In memany of the late Mrs Crofton; Mr and Mrs D. Tallan, $5.

The death accurred in England on April 5, as the result of an accident, of Mr Francis Bathie Winter, former- ly of the Hongkong and Shanghai

But that gentleman did-not-Banking Corporation. share the Dictator's enthusi- asm and so Edda, after a spell under a strict English governess and another at the smartest girls' school in Italy

from which she away-married instead young Ciano.

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The

Facts... GALEZZO CIANO then was of his father, who was Mus- solini's right-hand man.

chiefly known as the son

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- was slowly rising in paper, the Fascist seale. 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 politics.

"Women," she said, "should 'not interfero 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- mans.

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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