Word: antonino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak day in December 1941 when Don Ascanio Colonna, the titled, haughty Italian Ambassador to the U.S., walked out of his embassy, Antonino Celotto was very sad. Faithful Antonino, who had served four ambassadors as embassy caretaker, had watched white-faced Don Ascanio burning the embassy's papers. Now Italy, at war with the U.S., had cut the last bond...
...Antonino went back sadly into the embassy, to the four-room apartment where he lived with his wife and four children, and settled down to wait. He watched the Swiss come in to take over Italian affairs, then watched the Swiss delegation dwindle from 15 to two as, slowly but surely, the efficient Swiss ran out of Italian affairs to handle. Antonino checked each day on the embassy's shuttered windows-and hoped...
Last week Antonino Celotto, who once owned a grocery in Manhattan, was happy again. A new Italian ambassador was about to arrive. Antonino put on his best suit, slicked his coal black hair with pomade. He waited at the massive front door. As soon as it was proper for a caretaker to proffer his hand, Antonino greeted the new ambassador...
Then he sat down to pen a statement. Wrote he: "I am happy that the embassy to which I am devoted and for which I have worked for 14 years is going to be reopened under the Italian flag. . . ." For a few moments, it seemed as though Antonino was the real ambassador. He poured himself a glass of white wine and said: "It is a beautiful...
Fascism's most spectacular Special Tribunal in years assembled in Trieste last week. Its purpose: to frighten Italians out of sabotage, insurrection and anti-Fascist activities. The presiding judge: Lieut. General Antonino Tringali-Casanuova. The "criminals": students, antiFascists, Slovene nationalists, Communists. The crimes: a plot against Mussolini's life at Caporetto in 1938; the blowing up of three powder factories in 1940; an attempt to establish a Soviet regime embracing the old Yugoslavia...