Codice albumGBB-F-004497

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004497-0000

1947, 10 january, CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA : ALCIDE DE GASPERI (1881 - 1954), Prime Minister of Italy, examining campain ribbons of General OMAR N. BRADLEY (1893 - 1981), head of U.S. Veterans ' Administration. Both were speakers on the subject of Western Europe at the REPORT FROM THE WORLD, co-sponsored by Cleveland Council on World Affairs and TIME Magazine.In January 1947 De Gasperi visited the US. The chief goals of the trip were to soften the terms of the pending peace treaty with Italy, and to obtain immediate economic assistance. His ten-day tour, engineered by media mogul Henry Luce the owner of Time Magazine and his wife Clare Boothe Luce the future ambassador to Rome, was viewed as a media "triumph," prompting positive comments of a wide section of the American press. During his meetings in the US, he managed to secure a financially modest but politically significant US100 million Eximbank loan to Italy. According to De Gasperi, public opinion would view the loan as a vote of confidence in the Italian Government and strengthen his position versus the Communist Party in the context of the emerging Cold War. The positive results strengthened De Gasperis reputation in Italy. He also came back with useful information on the incipient change in American foreign policy that would lead to the Cold War and in Italy the break with the Communists and left-wing Socialists and their removal from the government in the May 1947 crisis.

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