Word: scammacca
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Rome, the Luces settled into the newly refurbished embassy residence, Villa Taverna, while the Italian Foreign Ministry began rearranging precedent and protocol. Baron Michele Scammacca called on the new ambassador instead of waiting for her to make the usual protocol visit to him. "Since the ambassador is a lady," said a Foreign Office spokesman, "we have revised the rules of protocol." She is the junior ambassador in the Rome diplomatic corps, but under the new rules she will be seated at formal functions "as a lady" rather than as ambassador. This technically places her in the position usually assigned...
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