Word: sforza
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...which she then claimed. The question was further complicated by the action of the Italian poet, d'Annunzio, in seizing Fiume (Sept. 12, 1919) and annexing it to Italy. These difficulties were smoothed out by the Treaty of Rapallo (November, 1920) negotiated for Italy by Count Sforza, Foreign Minister in the last Giolitti Cabinet, who, in a letter to the YugoSlavian Government, recognized its claims to the adjacent port of Barros. In Article 4 of the Treaty of Rapallo the contracting Powers recognized the independence of Fiume in perpetuity. Article 5 set up a special mission to delimit...