Word: tarchiani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approval of the Allies, their cobelligerent, Italy, this week declared war against her ex-Axis ally, Japan. Said the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry: "On the eve of the Potsdam conference . . . Italy thus takes up her post . . . in full equality of duties . . . striving at equality of rights." Said Alberto Tarchiani, Italian ambassador to Washington: "We hope soon to become Allies ourselves...
...appreciate your work." Few hours earlier, in a suite at the Wardman Park Hotel, tall, greying Ambassador Alberto Tarchiani had made his bow to the U.S. Just 55 hours out of Rome, via a U.S. Army transport, he had called in the U.S. press even before inspecting his embassy. "I am an old journalist myself," he said to the 21 newsmen. "I appreciate your work very much...
Ambassador Tarchiani, 59, was once one of Italy's great journalists: managing editor of Milan's Corriere della Sera. In 1925, at the height of his career, when Mussolini muzzled the press, he went into exile. After 15 years in Paris, writing anti-Fascist pamphlets, aiding in the escape of other antiFascists from Italy, he came to the U.S. Along with Count Carlo Sforza, he was one of the first of the exiles to go back to Italy after the Allied invasion...
...Alberto Tarchiani explained his mission in the U.S.: 1) to help the economic reconstruction of his country; 2) to gain full membership for Italy in the United Nations...
...larger part in the war. "All of the Italian fleet is at the disposal of the Allies. Italian aviators are ready to fly, if planes are given them. About 50,000 Italian merchant seamen could be used on United Nations ships." But what Italy wants most, said Signor Tarchiani, is the chance to build a democratic government of its own. He added hopefully: "I am sure to find here the greatest sympathy and comprehension for Italy...