Word: barberini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, Saragat's and Matteotti's rebels joined forces in an "Anti-Congress," held in the magnificent, 17th Century Palazzo Barberini (former residence of U.S. Ambassador Alexander C. Kirk). The most important catch of the Nenni Socialists was Novelist Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine), who has long opposed fusion with the Communists, but apparently could not bring him,self to split with his old party. Saragat succinctly summed up his own reasons for splitting: "I would infinitely prefer to side with our Socialist Comrade Attlee than with Comrade Tito." Said Nenni: "What has happened is an episode...
Later that day Flynn received 50 Allied newspapermen at the Barberini Palace, in U.S. Ambassador Alexander C. Kirk's huge apartment...
...Hopkins received U.S. correspondents in the fabulous magnificence of Ambassador Kirk's apartment in the Palazzo Barberini. Hunched down in a big chair beneath a picture of a Barberini pope, Harry Hopkins munched canapes, sipped wine, said that the Roosevelt Administration now realizes it must take a hand in Europe and its problems...