Word: guariglia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the meeting Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and General Keitel reportedly hurried to Verona to talk with Italy's new Foreign Minister, Raffaele Guariglia. The Chief of the Italian General Staff, General Vittorio Ambrosio, joined them, "on the germans' invitation," in "important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line...
...cabled a plausible outline for such an Axis proposal: "Italy has intimated reluctance to conclude a separate peace and is urging a general peace settlement which will include Germany. ... The Italian suggestion has been made through Turkey. The feeler is reported to have come directly from Foreign Minister Guariglia. Germany's Papan is busy in Ankara . . . insinuating to anyone willing to listen that if the United Nations try to impose merciless terms upon Italy which might be a precedent against Germany, then Hitler might seek peace with Russia...
...Information that Guariglia is aiming at a general peace including Germany came to London from responsible Spanish and Portuguese as well as Turkish sources. Guariglia is said to have recognized in private conversation that such a climax is bound to involve the overthrow of Hitlerism and to have added that 'Russia will have to stay within her proper boundaries.' Furthermore, Guariglia is said to be receiving Vatican encouragement...
...fury. A Foreign Office spokesman accused Under Secretary Welles of "extremely bad taste." It was seriously asked whether the U. S. was helping to plot the dismemberment or just listening to Allies' plans. Italian newspapers became hysterical over Italy's losses. Italian Ambassador to Paris Raffaele Guariglia called on M. Reynaud for an explanation. No one in Germany or Italy paid any attention to Mr. Welles's quiet comment on the whole thing: "Fantastic nonsense. ... I never even looked at any map which may have been in M. Reynaud's office...
...back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them. Il Duce moved to renew the British trade talks, and French Premier Reynaud had a long and apparently pleasant talk with Ambassador Raffaele Guariglia. But as French Ambassador André François-Poncet returned to Paris, L'Oeuvre commented: "It's not a secret that he didn't obtain impressive results at Rome...