Word: sforza
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...sure I shall be one of several to call to your attention your error in TIME (Dec. 11) in the picture of the Italian notables. In your asterisked explanation you say: "On his [Crown Prince Umberto's] left is Count Sforza." Sorry, but Count Sforza, whom I have the pleasure of knowing very well, is at the extreme left of the picture, beyond Bonomi...
...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...
...position of this Government has been consistently that the composition of the Italian Government is purely an Italian affair. . . . This Government has not in any way intimated to the Italian Government that there would be any opposition on its part to Count Sforza. . . . We have reaffirmed to both the British and Italian Governments that we expect the Italians to work out their problems of government along democratic lines without influence from outside. This policy would apply to an even more pronounced degree with regards to governments of the United Nations in their liberated territories...
...week's end, the Stettinius statement had roused a mixed reaction in Europe. In a ringing speech, Winston Churchill made the British position pikestaff plain (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Italy, Count Sforza was cautiously grateful for "American generosity"-but he did not get into a new government. Moscow was aloof and silent. U.S.-Soviet relations, however, had never been better...
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...