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Carlo Sforza, Conte

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Carlo Sforza, Conte , 1872–1952, Italian foreign minister. He held high ministerial and diplomatic posts, became a senator, and as foreign minister (1920–21) negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo with Yugoslavia. Sforza opposed Mussolini and resigned as ambassador to Paris in 1922. He went (1927) into voluntary exile and in 1940 went to the United States, where he became a prominent Italian anti-Fascist and antimonarchist leader. In 1943, Sforza returned to Italy and played a major political role. As foreign minister (1947–51) he supported the European Recovery Program and the settlement of the Trieste question. His many writings include Fifty Years of War and Diplomacy in the Balkans (1940).

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Sforza, Count Carlo

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Sforza, Count Carlo (1873–1952),anti-fascist Italian politician who fled to France in 1927, and then moved to the USA in 1940. He returned to Italy in September 1943 but refused to join Badoglio's government unless King Victor Emmanuel, whom he called the ‘Pétain of Italy’, abdicated. However, in April 1944, he became one of the ministers without portfolio in a restructured cabinet. He was elected president of Italy's preliminary parliamentary assembly in September 1945.

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