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...kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...
...Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
This decision was a triumph for Italy's Catholic, conservative Foreign Minister Alcide de Gaspari, a Tyrolian who was once a member of prewar Austria's Bundestag (Federal Diet). His negotiations with Maurice Couve de Murville, the French representative in Rome, hinged chiefly on one point-the special privileges hitherto granted to the large Italian population of French Tunisia, who had kept their Italian nationality, and had their own schools under a treaty of over 50 years' standing...
...Said De Gaspari, waiving these rights in return for recognition: "The best the Italian Government can do for all Italians, both at home and abroad, is to show her sincere desire for good will and friendship. It is a step toward regaining her self-respect and reentering the community of nations...
...Ambassador Alexander Kirk, smartly correct in dress and speech, was with them. Catholic Mr. De Gaspari's Communist Under Secretary, Eugenio Reale, was not. In halting English, Minister De Gaspari asked when his stricken country would get economic relief, whether there was any chance of an early German armistice. As the Vatican's No. 1 lay politico, he also asked: what about Russia? Harry Hopkins listened in friendly silence, answered no questions...