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Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a 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...
Then he stabbed Ricci five times. He stabbed Marquis Cittadini-Cesi who rushed to Ricci's aid. When police took Capocci away, he said: "One must act, not just talk." Ricci died a few minutes later on the sofa in his study.
Last week, at the International War Crimes trial in Tokyo, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan asked onetime Imperial Adviser Marquis Koicho Kido: "Is it not a fact that from the beginning to the end of your political career, you consistently opposed any move by the Emperor to bring about...
Columnist Marquis Childs, who does not often scold the Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed...
Many French-and English-speaking members thought Marquis had a good idea. So did External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. Said he: the King's title is out of date because "it does not make any distinction between the condition of those lands beyond the seas whose people have...