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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens, British troops fought Greek guerrillas. In Italy, snow-bearded Count Carlo Sforza, a longtime U.S. exile, was resoundingly vetoed for a cabinet post by Great Britain. Allied policy in liberated Europe was at a new low. The time had obviously come for the U.S. to take a stand. But Ed Stettinius waited to hear from President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Consistent Inconsistency | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

Crisis in Rome. In Italy Premier Ivanoe Bonomi was still trying to find somebody to join his Cabinet. Communists, Socialists and Actionists had tried to form a cabinet around Count Carlo Sforza. But British Ambassador Sir Noel Charles blocked the move. Britain, he said, did not consider Sforza a reliable man. Said Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "Italy has not been our ally . . . throughout this war." Eden on Sforza: "He told us he would pursue a certain course. . . . He did not pursue it. ... Recently he has been . . . working against the government of Bonomi. . . . We would prefer not to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Crises | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Already aging Dr. Josip Smodlaka, Tito's Foreign Minister, had exchanged sharp words with Italy's Count Carlo Sforza over Yugoslav claims to Trieste, Istria, Gorizia, awarded to Italy after World War I (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Power | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

There were other barbs. Rome asked Washington whether the Italian Embassy was available for its new occupant, probably Count Carlo Sforza. Washington replied: of course. Rome asked London whether the Italian Embassy was 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Eh, Well | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Survivors from the old Cabinet included independent Count Carlo Sforza, elder Philosopher Statesman Benedetto Croce and aggressive young Communist Palermo Togliatti, who was known as "Ercole" (Hercules) when he worked with the defunct Communist International in Moscow. Said Bonomi of his Cabinet: "No one, absolutely no one, with any Fascist connections at all is in it; only men pure of Fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pure of Fascism | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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