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Attacking the British. All Italy was enraged. Violence sputtered in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Bari, Messina. In Rome, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, returning from a call on Premier Pella, found Via Veneto, the broad street in front of the embassy, blocked by demonstrators, so that her car could not get through. Unhesitatingly, she stepped out of the car into the midst of the demonstrators and walked coolly through the crowd to the embassy. Then she offered to talk to any qualified representative of the demonstrators, but the crowd dispersed without anyone taking up the offer...
...Italians thrilled at the news. Newspapers, except those of the far left, broke out their big type to proclaim AN ACT OF JUSTICE. Wrote Italy's leading daily, Corriere della Sera: "What happened has been to a great extent the work of a woman, of Mrs. [Clare Boothe] Luce, and it is right and necessary that the Italian people know it . . . Perhaps one day we will learn with what patience, intelligence and diplomatic tact Mrs. Luce succeeded in bringing this arduous task to a happy end." But Ambassador Luce, in a press conference, attributed the plan's adoption...
Bureaus - WASHINGTON: James Shepley, John Beal Walter Bennett, Marshall Berger, Clay Blair, Jr., George B. Bookman, Martha Bucknell, Edwin Darby, T. George Harris, Henry Luce III, James L. McConaughy, Jr., William McHale, Alyce Moran, Anatole Visson, William White. CHICAGO: Sam Welles, Robert W. Glasgow, Ruth Mehrtens, Robert Schulman. Los ANGELES: Ben Williamson, James Murray, John Allen, Lyn Kennedy. DETROIT: Fred Collins. ATLANTA: William Howland, Boyd McDonald. BOSTON: Jeff Wylie. DALLAS: William Johnson. HOUSTON: Willard C. Rappleye, Jr. DENVER: Ed Ogle, Charles Champlin. SAN FRANCISCO: Alfred Wright. SEATTLE: Dean Brelis. OTTAWA: Serrell Hillman Byron W. Riggan. MONTREAL: James R. Conant...
...second-ranking member of the College of Cardinals and pastoral leader of Rome's 500 churches, exhorted his people: "Vote well, vote as Catholics, vote as Romans." In an address at the annual dinner of the American Chamber of Commerce in Milan, newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce made sure that every Italian voter understood where the U.S., which has given Italy $3 billion in aid since war's end, takes its stand. After speaking of past U.S. help to Italy, the ambassador added: "But if-I am required in all honesty to say this...
...learned appeals judges quoted Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche and Rousseau on the inequality of the sexes. When Maria's lawyer (a woman) cited such examples of U.S. stateswomen as Health, Education & Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, one judge replied: "The capacity and intelligence of Mrs. Luce do not apply to the case of a Brazilian woman." In the end, the judges denied Maria Sandra's appeal. But friends in Parliament were trying to push through bills to admit women to the foreign service. The Foreign Office recommended to President Getulio Vargas that...