Emanuele Grazzi
Italian diplomat and journalist
Emanuele Grazzi (30 May 1891 - 7 September 1961) was an Italian diplomat and writer. He was the Italian ambassador to Greece during World War II, delivering Benito Mussolini's ultimatum to Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas on 28 October 1940. The refusal of Italian demands led to the beginning of the Greco-Italian War and Greece's joining of World War II.
Biography
Grazzi was born in Florence on 30 May 1891. He graduated in law from the University of Pisa in 1911.
He was appointed Consular Attaché and sent to Tunis in 1912. He returned to the Ministry in 1913 and was subsequently sent to Helsingfors, first as Italian delegate and then as chargé d'affaires in the Inter-Allied Economic Committee (1919). He then served in Berlin becoming Regent of the Consulate in 1920 and was then appointed Consul in Florianópolis in 1922. In 1924 he returned to the Ministry. He was transferred to Toulouse in 1925 and in 1927 to New York as Consul General.
He was chargé d'affaires in Guatemala in 1932, and returned to the Ministry in 1934 to work for the Press and Propaganda.
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