RULER OF ITALY?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 123, 10 June 1937, Page 5

RULER OF ITALY?

(Own Correspondent — By Air Mall.)

Dnce's Daughter Mentioned

LONDON, May 20. A woman as future Tuler of Italy — This is the propheey that is being whispered in Bome by intimate friends of Countess Edda Ciano, daughter and confidante of Mussolini. e'or some time it has been apparent that the Countess, who is wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, is being given an increasingly important place in politics. Last year some surprise was created when Countess Ciano went to Berlin as ' ' Social Ambassadress of Italy." Great political significance was then attached to her visit. Now Mussolini has ordered that official xecoguitioii should be aecorded to any' public visits his daughter may make ra Italy or abroad. The headstrong girl with the quick arguments with the one statement: "I am Mussolini's daughter" has become a cujtured and politically astute woman of 27. In 1930 Signora Edda Mussolini, aged i 19, married Count Galeazzo Ciano, then 26. ; Six years later, when Mussolini surfendered three of the eight posts he held in the Italian Cabinet, he handed the most important— the portfolio of Foreign Affairs— to his daughter 's husband, '

Londoners reeently enjoyed a wondejful display of one of the most beautif'ul of sky phenomena. During the aftejnoon large patches of clond were extensjvely tinted with coleurings >f pinkj red aud greeu, The colouring on 'ea«h cloud mass . was generally not long-lived, bnt as the shading faded on it, anpther masg took up the same colouring. "While the phenomenon knpwn as iridescpnee, is not nnpommon, It is unusual to see At over such cxt tended of clond. ,