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Travel-worn leather bags stood ready last week in a modest Manhattan apartment. Count Carlo Sforza, urbane, white-bearded, was about to begin a long trip home. Sixteen years ago he and his family were hounded into exile by Fascismo's bullyboys, who burned down their villa and might have murdered them. Now, at 70, Italy's distinguished liberal refugee had been granted Allied permission to go home...
Hour of Tragedy. When Benito Mussolini, the proletarian, marched on Rome in 1922, Carlo Sforza, the aristocrat, 17th count of a venerable line, was Italian Ambassador in Paris. He had reached that post after diplomatic service from London to China and a spell as Foreign Minister. With the Blackshirt government he would have no truck. He resigned as Ambassador, returned to Rome, denounced Fascismo and its dangerous "adventurers" from his seat in the Senate. The Duce said that he could have twelve bullets put into Count Sforza. The Count replied that political murder was inadvisable. But the time came, during...
Tsouderos could relax. By last week all important exiled Italians, including Count Carlo Sforza, who as Foreign Minister in 1920 had a part in strengthening Italy's grip on the potential naval base, had declared for a return of the Islands to Greece...
...moment was: "If England wins, we are losers; if Germany wins, we are lost." The underground Matteotti society circulated an antiFascist, anti-German newspaper. Students toyed with Rivoluzionario groups; older antiFascists were increasingly active in the Free Italy secret organization directed in the U.S. by cultured, white-bearded Count Sforza...
...Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times...