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...announced that there would be no more conferences until late in August. The reason? Apparently Mr. Mellon made it plain that any settlement must be made on the basis of Great Britain's settlement and any modifications must be based on proven incapacity of Italy to pay. Mario Alberti, Italian expert, replied that Italy was the only nation in Europe which was now spending less for military purposes than before the War; that higher taxation would drive capital out of Italy; that, allowing Italy a standard of living only half that of the U. S., taxation...
...Negotiators. To the Treasury Department came the Italian Ambassador Giacomo de Martino, Mario Alberti, director of a large Italian bank, the Credito Italiano, and attachés at the Embassy. They were received by the U. S. World War Debt Commission- Andrew W. Mellon, Chairman; Secretary of State Kellogg, Senator Reed Smoot, and Under Secretary of the Treasury Garrard B. Winston, Secretary of the Commission...
...very elaborate. They are divided by stiles and rails intersecting in carved rosettes. Eight are occupied by portrait medallions of famous architectural designers of the past, and the rest by shields with the Harvard "H." On the left hand door are the heads of Brunelleschi, Michael Angelo, Alberti and Sangallo, and on the right, Lescot, Peruzzi, Bramante and Sansovino...
...chief Italian and the chief French master in works of this class, Vittore Pisano, and Dupre, are represented in this collection. Among the portraits by these and other medalists are those of Alfonzo V of Aragon, Lionello D'Este of Ferrara, Filippe Maria, Visconti of Milan, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. The medals are, for the most part, of considerable size, ranging from 40 or 50 to nearly 200 millimetres in diameter...