Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-21 | Page 1 | Count's Widow Writing Book on His Work

COUNT'S WIDOW illS BOOK DN HIS WORK Diary of Peace Conference Part of Volume Being Com-piled Com-piled in Rome ROME Oct 21. The Countess Macchl di Celere, widow of Count Y Macchl eh Celere, former Italian embassador em-bassador to the United tSates. is publishing pub-lishing a book concerning her husband's hus-band's work in Washington The coun-ess coun-ess says the ambassador wrote to To maSSO Tittoni. then Kalian foreign minister. "America's declaration f war to Austria Is due to me." The countess affirms that the am- j bassador obtained tho first, ioan mad" by the American treasury to the allies, that given to ltal, and says And ltal might also have had1 American troops, which Ambassador Page (Thomas Nelson Pago, former, American ambassador to Italy was the first to offer " l I Kit STING DIARY The book contains an interesting diarj of the Parisi peace conference which Count dl Celere wrote da II v without knowing it would be printed, rendering constant homage to what he1 termed the coherent and straightforward straightfor-ward policy of Baron Sonnlno, of the Italian peace delegation. The countess recalls the evening of October 20, 1019. when, although ill. the count dictated to her from blsl sick bed :i telegram for Signor Tittoni.' who was then in Paris striving to obtain ob-tain a solution of the Plume question' acceptable to Italy, that is territorial I contiguity between Plume and the! mother country. LANSING PRAISEP Signor Tittoni had entrusted Count! dl Celere with the task of overcoming, President Wilson's reluctance to such a solution, the countess declares, add-1 lug that the count worked indefatig-ably indefatig-ably to attain his object in several con verwit ions with the then American secretary of state, Robert Lansing, "who was always the enlightened and' faithful friend of Italy.' The countess asserts that the count s message to Signor Tittoni explained the details of his efforts Twenty-five; minutes after dictating the communication communi-cation Count dl Celere died the countess coun-tess says.