Foreign Affairs: Bustling Dino

Hardest working, quickest acting Foreign Minister in Europe is Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed. Last week he: 1) Appointed Edda Mussolini’s husband to be Consul General at Shanghai, China; 2) Sought to soothe French statesmen ruffled by Il Duce’s warlike outbursts (TIME, June 2) with a proposal that both France and Italy suspend naval building during 1930 and try to reach an accord; 3) Rushed off to Warsaw for a week’s confab with Polish statesmen “on matters of trade.”

Italian correspondents who called at the French Foreign Office last week were coldly received, informed that “a naval holiday just now would be more advantageous to Italy than to France.”