Galeazzo Ciano Quotes
A great hullabaloo is being made in Germany over the people’s car – seven million are to be built and almost ever family will have its own little car.
Galeazzo Ciano, 1903-1944, [Count Ciano], Italian Foreign Minister, Diary, May 31, 1938
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Explaining the origin of the Interstate Highway System:
He made this quotation in a discussion about nuclear weapons, but the principle is valid for many areas from the Internet to pharmaceuticals. In the nuclear weapons case there have been a number of accidents – including fatal ones – over the years and on several occasions a nuclear weapon came close to detonating near populated areas. In one case, radiation damage from a crash of a nuclear weapons equipped bomber have made an area in Spain unusable for years into the future.
He had just seen demonstrations of new military technology at the German War Games.
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943. During this period, he was widely seen as Mussolini's most probable successor as Duce.