Word: aldrovandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference (TIME, Nov. 22 et ante), stood deserted last week by the chief delegates of Britain, France and Russia. They had returned to their capitals, leaving second-stringers at Brussels, and leaving Ambassador Davis to keep his temper while the windup of the conference gave the Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opportunity to say that Rome "has deemed this conference entirely superfluous from the very beginning and has had no reason since to change its mind...
Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opposed this, citing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia as an example of satisfactorily settling a dispute by armed force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis...
...commissioner, dynamic, fact-ferreting General Frank Ross McCoy (close friend of President Roosevelt) and the three "official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...
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