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Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...
...GRACE SMEDLEY...
...have some significant things to report." Asked for specifics, Cohn said portentously that there were not enough copies of the American Legion Magazine in U.S. information libraries. (Later they announced that the libraries contained such magazines as the Nation and the New Republic* works by such authors as Agnes Smedley, Dashiell Hammett, Anna Louise Strong.) Then the pair flew off to Berlin for a quick look at the Soviet cultural center in the Russian zone. There wasn't time to inspect Berlin's American library, but in a refugee camp Cohn asked a recent trans-Curtain arrival...
...women connected with I.P.R. and involved by evidence in pro-Communist activities were out of reach (abroad, dead, in hiding, etc,) of subpoena. Included: Gunther Stein, Agnes Smedley, Andrew Roth...
...state as I have already reiterated publicly and under oath, that I have never been a communist, nor a communist sympathizer, and that neither my wife nor I had any knowledge of the reported proposal made to C.I.A. in 1949, nor would we have considered working with Agnes Smedley or Anna Louise Strong (also mentioned by Munson) with whose views have been in sharp disagreement then...