Guido Colonna di Paliano
 Guido Colonna di Paliano     (Italian aristocrat, diplomat) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1908-04-16 Naples, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1982-01-27 (Age 73) Naples, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Naples | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Italian International Affairs Institute, Trilateral Commission | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interests | Marshall Plan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Christian Democracy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SDS connected Italian aristocrat and diplomat. Deputy Secretary General of NATO 1962-64, then European Commissioner.
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Prince Guido Colonna di Paliano was an Italian aristocrat and diplomat.
He attended the Bilderberg conference in (at least) 1967, 1972 and 1974, and was a member of the Trilateral Commission.[1]
Education
Guido Colonna graduated in law in 1930 from the University of Naples.
Career
Before the Second World War, he was in America as Italy's vice-consul to New York City from 1934 to 1937 and then to Toronto from 1937 to 1939.[2] From 1939 to 1940 he was secretary of the Italian embassy in Cairo.
After the war, he was Secretary-General of the Italian delegation at the Marshall Plan negotiations (October 1947-March 1948), then Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (10 May 1948-July 1956). In 1956, he was appointed deputy general director for political affairs in the Italian foreign affairs ministry. He was promoted to the rank of minister on 20 October 1957. From December 1958 to July 1962, he was Italian ambassador to Norway, succeeding Paolo Vita Finzi. He was deputy secretary general of NATO from 1962 to 1964.[3]
On 30 July 1964 he succeeded Giuseppe Caron as European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services in the second Hallstein Commission and he remained in the succeeding Rey Commission of 1967 as Industry Commissioner until his resignation in May 1970 just before the commission's term of office expired. His resignation from the Rey Commission and the subsequent delay in appointing a successor confirmed reports that the Member States would not renew Rey's mandate that expired at the end of June 1970.
After the end of his political career, Guido Colonna di Paliano returned to the private sector as President of the Italian department store chain "Rinascente". He also became a member of the Trilateral Commission.[4]
Personal life
On 8 June 1938 in New York, Colonna, at the time Italian vice consul at Toronto, married Tatiana Conus, daughter of Julius Conus (Yúlij Eduárdovič Konyús), a Russian pianist and composer of French origin, and of Princess Maria Alexandrovna Lieven.[5] She was born in Moscow on 1 December 1916 and died in Milan on 29 July 2009. They had three children: Don Piero Colonna (born in Toronto 25 December 1938), Don Stefano Colonna (born in Cairo 21 March 1940) and Donna Maria Cristina Colonna (born in Stockholm 16 December 1941). On 23 June 1967, in Paris, the latter married Count Patrice de Vogüé (born in Paris 8 December 1928), descendant of the diplomat and archeologist Melchior de Vogüé and owner of Vaux-le-Vicomte, a famous historical French château which he received from his father on the day of his marriage.
Tatiana Colonna and her children are the subject of a story told by Italian writer Curzio Malaparte in his war novel Kaputt (published in 1944): she cures them of their fear of birds, brought on by their association of a sparrow trapped in their bedroom with the bombings they have experienced in Naples.[6]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1967 | 31 March 1967 | 2 April 1967 | United Kingdom St John's College (Cambridge) UK | Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge) |
| Bilderberg/1972 | 21 April 1972 | 23 April 1972 | Belgium Hotel La Reserve Knokke | The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission. |
| Bilderberg/1974 | 19 April 1974 | 21 April 1974 | France Hotel Mont d' Arbois Megève | The 23rd Bilderberg, held in France |
References
- ↑ http://www.eui.eu/Documents/Research/HistoricalArchivesofEU/PublicationsAbouttheFonds/Commissariitaliani.pdf
- ↑ L. G. Pennacchio, Exporting Fascism to Canada: Toronto's Little Italy, in Enemies Within: Italians and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad, eds Franca Iacovetta, Angelo Principe and Roberto Perin, University of Toronto Press, 2000, p. 52.
- ↑ "NATO Who's who? Secretaries General of NATO", http://www.nato.int/cv/depsecgen.htm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120223142150/http://www.eui.eu/Documents/Research/HistoricalArchivesofEU/PublicationsAbouttheFonds/Commissariitaliani.pdf
- ↑ The Nebraska Journal (Lincoln, NE), Thursday, 9 June 1938: "With the approval of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, the wedding of Prince Don Guido Colonna de Paliano and Miss Tatiana Conus, daughter of the former Princess Marie Levien of Russia, took place Wednesday in the flower bedecked home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, jr. Forty socially prominent friends attended the formal double ring ceremony conducted by the Most Rev. Giovanni Tedesa. The prince, Italian vice consul at Toronto, and his bride left immediately for a motor tour of Canada."
- ↑ https://archive.today/20141103095055/http://mwbdvjh.muse.jhu.edu/journals/sewanee_review/v118/118.2.walker.html
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