COUNT CIANO

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20506, 24 May 1938, Page 9

COUNT CIANO

ITALY’S FOREIGN MINISTER THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST (Times Air Mall Servioe) LONDON, April 20 Italy’s Foreign Minister, Count Costanzo Galeazzo Ciano, is due over here soon—that’s an “ amen ” to the AngloItalian pact, writes Enid Corrall in the Daily Sketch. Sturdy, stocky Count Ciano looks ten years younger than he is. At 35 he’s the world's youngest Foreign Minister. Count Ciano was in diplomacy before he was in his twenties. lie began his diplomatic training in South America. Then came Peiping. Back to Rome as Secretary to the Holy see. He was made head of Mussolini’s Government Press Bureau; then Italy’s official Minister of Press and Propaganda. Whispers went round Rome that he was being groomed for succession eventually to Mussolini. Everyone who wanted to meet Mussolini had to meet, first his son-jn-law. (Count Ciano married II Duce’s daughter Edda). The Italo-Abyssinian war brought him a decoration for bravery—with which he is well supplied. Is good-looking, particular about his clothes and appearance; has steady, brown eyes, white, rather small, teeth. Smiles readily and often. lie has a forceful, boyish charm, which is just as effective as the sophisticated tactics of the old school of diplomacy.