Designs in Diplomacy; Pages from European Diplomatic History in the Twentieth Century

Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus. Hardcover. Good. ix, [3], 433, [3] pages. Footnotes. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Earlier versions of some chapters had been published in scholarly journals. Includes Preface and Index. Also includes chapters on Failure of the Hungarian-Rumanian Rapprochement of 1920; Italy and the Nazi-Soviet Accords of August, 1939; Italo-Soviet Relations, 1940-1941: Failure of an Accord; Resumption of Diplomatic Relations between Italy and the Soviet Union during World War II; Resumption of Diplomatic Relations between Italy and the Soviet Union during World War II; Resumption of Diplomatic Relations between France and Italy during World War II; Italian Soundings to Abandon the Conflict prior to Mussolini's Fall; and Specific Problems in the History of World War II. The material contained in the first volume of the Hungarian collection of diplomatic documents relating to the period immediately following the end of World War I has already made it possible to investigate several important episodes in Danubian-Balkan policy for those years. This brief article will reconstruct a particularly interesting page of diplomatic history relating to the efforts made in 1920 to realize a Hungarian-Rumanian rapprochement. This episode, closely linked to the negotiations for the creation of the Little Entente and to the Franco-Magyar accord of 1920, will help to clarify the complex diplomatic panorama then developing in eastern Europe. Designs in Diplomacy comprises seven articles dealing primarily with Italy's diplomatic entanglements during World War II. They were largely written between 1941 and 1963, and were revised by the author himself on the basis of the latest documentary materials and interpretive works in 1968. Mario Toscano, former Director of the Institute of Treaties and International. Politics at the University of Rome, was a distinguished Italian diplomatic historian. An unusually productive scholar, he published document collections, books and journal articles.