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Show ITALIAN DIPLOMAT LAUDS OWN COUNTRY ft V: - j5 Signor Gaston Del Frate, diplomat and noted member of the Italian bar, who recently spent a few days in America, being on a viBit to his wife's relatives at Madison, Wis., told of the progress of the Italian war, of American Amer-ican influence in his country, and spoke of Italian art and literature and music. Old Italy has beaten the Turk, he said, and Boon will come the settlement. Italian Influence will increase. in-crease. Italy and the United States will grow closer together. The art of Italy and increasing American appreciation ap-preciation of art will bring it about. Signor Del Frate is legal adviser to the United States embassy in Rome. He has been legal adviser to the French and Russian legations. When J. Pierpont Morgan bought the site in Rome on which! the American academy is now erecting a beautiful home and presented it to that organization, organi-zation, Signor Del Frate had charge of the matter. The Italian-Turkish war, which has been so well censored as to battle reports, will not last much longer. Signor Del F'ate believes, but its end will ccme, he said, not until questions that involve not only Italy, but also Montenegro, Bulgaria, Albania and other Balkan states have been considered. consid-ered. "We have financed the Italian war without levying special taxes or increasing in-creasing existing taxes, which, for a Latin people who are naturally philosophers phil-osophers and artists, but not fundamentally financiers, is doing well," he said. "We sold some bonds, but they went at 4 per cent." |