Word: martino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...
Keeping in Step. After that, the NATO nations fell over each other in proposing new devices to keep future policies in step. Italy's Gaetano Martino proposed a permanent consultative body to develop a "common Western policy" for areas both inside and outside the NATO areas. West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano suggested an amendment to the treaty itself which would require each NATO nation to consult others on problems affecting the alliance. France's Christian Pineau wanted obligatory consultation on all foreign policies. Even more grandiosely, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd suggested a "grand design...
...report of the "three wise men"-Canada's Lester Pearson, Italy's Martino, Norway's Halvard Lange-was less ambitious. While arguing broadly that "there cannot be unity in defense and disunity in foreign policy," its recommendations were hedged carefully with a sense of reality. Its chief recommendation: "Member governments should not adopt firm policies or make major political pronouncements on matters which significantly affect the alliance" without advance consultation with the NATO council...
...External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, who was appointed two months ago, along with Norway's Halvard Lange and Italy's Gaetano Martino, to make a study of nonmilitary cooperation among members of the NATO alliance, will spend much of his time on that project in coming months. Pearson told a press conference that a long questionnaire had been sent to the 15 NATO capitals inviting suggestions on how the alliance could expand its economic, political and other non-military functions. The Pearson-Lange-Martino committee-"The Three Wise Men,"-will collate the replies and prepare a report...
...they are apparently not willing to leave it at that. Last week in Rome, Italy's Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, waiting to greet a distinguished German visitor, Konrad Adenauer, told of a triumph of toastmanship achieved by the hardheaded, steel-stomached old man on his visit to Moscow last September. Unaware of der Alte's heroic capacity for hard liquor, Communist Party Chief Khrushchev had proposed one toast after another at a state banquet, watching eagerly as the German Chancellor drained glass after glass of vodka. At the end of some 15 toasts, Adenauer was still going strong...