refused to without slamming the door behind me. But the war with France   
ended all of a sudden and my calculations, blew up like soap-bubbles. I   
was called back for the Armistice negotiations and once more I was caught.   
"But"I said, "if I Understand right, You were already long aware of the   
great danger that the Hitlerian Germany would be to Italy  
end for Europe", "I have always regarded German politics  
with seeing eyes. I have always understood that Germany marched boldly   
towards war end that. we were a playcard in their game, a card that would   
be sacrificed at the first opportunity. And If I had not come to   
understand it by myself, if I had not seen with my own eyes - Attolico   
would have made me see." "The Ambassador to Berlin, does he see  
clearly? "He always did. His reports were a constant cry of alarm, it can   
be said, that he had hardly arrived in  
Berlin, before he knew, before he understood that Germany  
wanted war and was prepared for it - and would to any cost  
              force the outbreak of that war."              
 
When he later on read a part of his diary to me, these  
same words met me from the pages, but it also occurred, that while   
Attolice called our attention with allarming cries, the Counselor to the   
Embassy in Berlin, Magistrati, brother-in_law of the Minister, wrote   
optimistic and tranquilizing letters, as to the German situation and Nazi   
politics. "You see,- I said,"that sometimes our Ambassadors are worth a   
littlemz~ than the Journalists.- "But tell me, if he were such a good   
Ambassador, why must he leave? Maybe Just for that reason: of being a good   
       Ambassador? He refused to answer my question.        
 
                ALFIERI appointed AMBASSADOR                
 
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