Word: palazzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadows of Harry Hopkins' first evening in Italy were falling on sad, eternal Rome when he drove to the somber Palazzo Chigi. There, in a dun-walled room once used by Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano, President Roosevelt's sour-faced emissary had a chat with Italy's pale Foreign Minister, gap-toothed Alcide De Gaspari...
...Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, got tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote Sir Noel a note reviewing the discussions: "As we were saying yesterday...
Last week other lights came on in the Palazzo Chigi. The U.S., Russia, Great Britain, several of the Latin American countries (but not near neighbors France, Greece, Yugoslavia) granted Italy diplomatic recognition. They had exchanged or would soon exchange ambassadors with her. Belatedly once more, the U.S. and Britain had caught up with Moscow. For Russia has had "direct relations" with the Italian Government since last April, as every Italian knows...
...available for tall, handsome, superbly tailored Count Niccolo Carandini. London answered : Count Carandini could live at the Claridge. (Anti-Italian feeling was still strong among Britons. Count Carandini had best not make himself too conspicuous.) Italians sighed. With characteristic patience they looked at the new electric light in the Palazzo Chigi, murmured: "Eh, well, wait...
...Well might Italians, hungry, wartorn, defeated, alarmed by Tito's claims and without even Orlando to plead their cause, ponder upon the aging symbol in the Palazzo di Monte Citorio. "Now," said one Italian bitterly, "we have only Sir Noel Charles [British member of the Allied Advisory Council] to defend...