Word: martino
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story is told of his father's being suddenly ousted from the Italian Legation at Peking by a new Government at Rome because his policies did not please the new Administration. De Martino papa, forced to earn his living in the Orient, where he had had long experience, did so by writing for U. S. newspapers...
Coming from so long a line of diplomats, small is the wonder that Signor de Martino is able. He was born just over 56 years ago, was sent to school in England as a small boy, learned the English language perfectly and still speaks it without a trace of foreign accent. At the age of 23, he joined the Diplomatic Corps. Fifteen years later, he was First Secretary of Legation at Cairo and, in 1910, was promoted Italy's Minister Plenipotentiary and Diplomatic Agent at the same place. It was in this latter capacity that he became a warm...
...after Italy had successfully upheld against the Turk the annexation oi its North African Province of Tripoli, Signor de Martino was transferred to the Sublime Porte (Constantinople), where he remained until Italy joined the War, in 1915, on the side of the Entente Powers...
...sister married the German Count Albert von Quadt, onetime Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy at Washington?; thus, on that score alone, De Martino was well known in the Teuton grand monde. He had, from August, 1914, until Italy entered the War in 1915, constantly, loudly and successfully counseled Italy to abandon the Triple Alliance and join the Triple Entente. On this account, too, he was well known in Germany?and well hated. His position called, it was said, for the utmost "dignity, tact, patience and firmness", all of which qualities he showed superlatively...
...Martino papa. He earned his living by writing...