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Show NEW U. S. PALACF IN ROME Thomas J. O'Brien, Ambassador to Italy, Has at Last Found Suitable Suit-able Residence. Rome. Thouas J. O'Brien, the American ambassador, has at last solved In a most suitable way the question of his residence as tho representative rep-resentative of a power like the United States. In Rome the ambassador of a great country can hardly live, without losing some prestige, in a modern house or villa. The residence which the French ambassador occupies, the Palazzo Far- Corner of the Garden Wall. nese, is a national monument in itself. The Austrian ambassador lives in tha Palazzo Venezia, a stronghold, so-. so-. called,, because it belonged to the Republic Re-public of Doges. The ambassador of Spain has the Palazzo di Spagna, which for centuries cen-turies housed the grandees of that country. The German ambassador is housed in the Palazzo Chaffarelli, which from the heights of the capitol frowns over the Eternal City below. The Japanese ambassador lives in the historic Palazzo Altiere, erected in 1670. Ambassador O'Brien understood this situation and set to work to find a proper residence, which for a time seemed impossible. He signed a contract con-tract to occupy a gorgeous apartment in the Palazzo Barberinl,- a most imposing im-posing structure of the Renaissance, begun in, 1624, and finished by the ubiquitous Bernini, who&e works con-fiont con-fiont one at every turn in Rome. |