LIFE 1939: Pic of the Week: Edda Ciano, Mussolini's favorite daughter, sells Fascism to a Prince in Brazil.

LIFE 1939: Pic of the Week: Edda Ciano, Mussolini's favorite daughter, sells Fascism to a Prince in Brazil. http://bit.ly/1jmCwMH

"The democratic U.S. sent to Brazil last May only its humdrum new Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall. Italy, however, sent Brazil last month its most vital female personality. The daughter of its Duce and the wife of its Foreign Minister - Edda Mussolini Ciano. This topnotch saleswoman of Fascism is now 30 and has three children. On the opposite page she dances in Rio de Janeiro with 22-year-old Prince Jean Marie Philippe Gabriel, second son of Dom Pedro, Pretender to the throne of Brazil."

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