Word: sforza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...markets were black markets. The picture of brave prosperity was false, and its bright colors hid festering dirt and dangerous tensions. Inflation went unchecked. Unemployment was,nearing the two-and-a-half-million mark. In Rome, Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza was on his way to the Foreign Office when a crowd surrounded his car and mauled him. Cried Sforza: "I know you want bread! I work 16 hours a day so you'll get it." The bitter reply: "You work-but we can't." The Government, a paralytic coalition of Christian Democrats, Communists and Socialists, was bogged...
...only major change: Socialist Pietro Nenni ceded the Foreign Office (and with it the painful job of signing the Italian peace treaty) to Independent Count Carlo Sforza...
Smoke-Cured. In Manhattan, John Sforza, 19, strolled along Fifth Avenue, suddenly turned a corpselike hue, collapsed, was rushed to a hospital. Diagnosis: cigar-his first...
That surprised stocky, Hungarian-born Emery Reves, prewar agent for most of Europe's writer-statesmen (Churchill, Eden, Reynaud, Sforza, etc.). From long experience Agent Reves thought that he knew an important document when he saw one. The Attlee piece was his first postwar offering. Last week, when Labor won and Attlee became Prime Minister, some 35 of the previously disinterested papers changed their minds, sent him rush orders for the article...
Ready to Compromise. At week's end both sides were reported to be ready to compromise by making Trieste an international port. But Marshal Tito proposed that the international port should be under Yugoslav sovereignty. Liberal Count Carlo Sforza proposed that it should be under Italian sovereignty. Britain, with its New Zealanders quietly occupying Trieste harbor, said nothing. But London could scarcely fail to be aware that with a pro-Russian government newly established in Vienna (TIME, May 7) and a pro-Russian government in Belgrade, Trieste under Yugoslav sovereignty would be equivalent to a Russian port...