MONETA ERNESTO TEODORO: (1833-1918) Italian journalist and nationalist, Nobel Pe…

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MONETA ERNESTO TEODORO: (1833-1918) Italian journalist and nationalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1907. A.L.S., E T Moneta, two pages (written to the first and final sides of the bifolium), Milan, 11th January 1904, to a colleague and friend (Monsieur Gaillard, a member of the French Society for arbitration between nations), on the printed stationery of Societa Internazionale per la Pace, in French. Moneta sends his warmest congratulations to his correspondent on the conclusion of the Franco-English and Franco-Italian arbitration treaties and continues ´Je suis profondement touche de l´honneur d´etre mis par votre bienveillante courtoisie, avec MM D´Estournelles et Barclay. Je fairai de mon mieux pour etre avec les amis et camarades de France le 22 fevrier. Mais vous comprenez que je ne peux pas de maintenant prendre un engagement definitif´ (Translation: ´I am deeply touched by the honour of being placed, by your kind courtesy, with Messrs D'Estournelles and Barclay. I shall do my best to be with my friends and comrades in France on 22 February. But you understand that I cannot now make a definite commitment´) and concludes by sending his thanks and deepest gratitude to his correspondent and Monsieur Passy. One small, neat split at the head of the vertical fold, otherwise VG Paul Henri Balluet d´Estournelles de Constant (1852-1924) French diplomat and politician, an advocate of international arbitration and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1909. Thomas Barclay (1853-1941) British politician and an authority on international law who headed the British Chamber of Commerce in France 1899-1900 and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on no fewer than ten occasions. Frederic Passy (1822-1912) French economist and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1901.

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