Sforza, Carlo, Conte

Sforza, Carlo, Conte

▪ Italian statesman
born September 25, 1873, Montignoso di Lunigiana, Italy
died September 4, 1952, Rome

      Italian diplomat and statesman, an exile during the Fascist era, who became a major figure in post-World War II foreign affairs.

      Sforza entered the diplomatic service in 1896 and served in Cairo, Paris, Constantinople, Beijing, Bucharest, Madrid, London, and Belgrade. He was undersecretary of state for foreign affairs in 1919–20 and minister for foreign affairs in 1920–21. Appointed ambassador to France in February 1922, he resigned nine months later, refusing to serve under Benito Mussolini (Mussolini, Benito). For nearly two decades Sforza lived abroad—in Belgium until 1939 and in the United States after 1940—as lecturer and political commentator. He returned to Italy in 1943 and held a number of ministerial and other posts until he was elected a member of the constituent assembly as a Republican in 1946. He joined the third Alcide De Gasperi (De Gasperi, Alcide) cabinet in 1947 as minister of foreign affairs, retaining this position until July 1951, when he resigned because of ill health. Sforza's influence was a determining factor in the Italian ratification of the peace treaty, in Italy's joining the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, and in its adherence to the North Atlantic Treaty.

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