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...Planning Commission, President Roosevelt's uncle, offered for sale, through the American Civic Association, handkerchiefs 28-in. square whose design, in six colors, is a map of historic Washington & environs. Proceeds will go to the George Washington Memorial Parkway Fund. Price: $1. ¶ Talking with Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso and Commander Nicolo Sananelli of the Italian War Veterans, President Roosevelt revealed that while on a walking tour in Italy in 1860 his father James had entered Naples during a siege, had received from the great Garibaldi himself one of the Liberator's red shirts...
...office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division.* Other callers included Spain's de Cardenas, Sweden's Bostrom, Czechoslovakia's Veverka, Denmark...
Last week's ceremony over, Ambassador Rosso hurried back to his luxurious 16th Street Embassy with its enclosed garden, fountain, cloister. There he got a warm greeting from his red & white cocker spaniel Tobias. Said he, explaining the dog's name: "When he was a puppy, Tobias-like all cocker spaniels-leaped and played about me a great deal. One day I said to the frisky little dog, 'You would try the patience of Tobias.' I was thinking of Job -but the name stuck...
...Rosso. Arriving in Manhattan last fortnight, he began a voluble interview with: "I consider myself an old American. . . ." His diplomatic service in Washington dates back to 1910. After the War, in which he served as a cavalry officer, he returned as counselor of embassy. In 1925 he went home but popped over again in 1931 with Foreign Minister Dino...
Unmarried, young-looking for his 48 years, Augusto Rosso is called in Italy "the American Uncle," not because he likes the U. S. (which he does) but because he is rich. He smokes potent Tuscano cigars, rides horseback with furious abandon. Quick, dynamic, agreeable, he is expected quickly to become a potent force in the diplomatic corps at the Capital...