Casto Caruso

Casto Caruso (born October 10, 1904 in Pomarico , † in Rome ) was an Italian diplomat .

He was the son of Pasqua De Cicco and Francesco Caruso a lawyer. On June 1, 1939, he married Elena Schisa in Assisi , their daughter is Franca Maria.

Education

In 1925 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Naples Federico II and in 1926 studied political science , economics and social science .

Career

In 1928 he joined the foreign service. In 1930 he was the secretary of the Italian delegation to the 11th General Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva.

From 1932 to October 1935 he was consul in Damascus in the French League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon and invested 7,000 Italian lira in public relations. From October 1935 to 1939 he was employed in Rome as the private secretary of Galeazzo Ciano . From September 14, 1939 to July 25, 1943 he had exequatur as consul general in Prague . From July 25, 1943 to 1945, he was the first-class delegation secretary in Bern . From November 7, 1946 to 1948, he was Consul General in the Tangier International Zone . From 1948 to April 30, 1951 he was in Rome, authorized to issue instructions for the Servizio economico trattato (SET). From April 30, 1951 to June 1, 1954 he was ambassador in The Hague . From June 1, 1954 to 1958, he was ambassador to Athens . From June 15, 1959 to 1961, he headed the trade department in the Foreign Ministry.

From 1961 to 1965 he was the representative of the Italian government at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development . From June 17, 1967 to November 1, 1969 he was Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Awards

• 1936: Officer of the Star of Italy
• 1939: Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy
• 1941: Order of Knights of St. Mauritius and Lazarus
• 1942: Order of Skanderbeg
• 1942: Orden de Isabel la Católica
• 1955: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 1965: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix
• Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau
• Grand Cross of the Order de Mayo Order of Merit of Argentina

Individual evidence

1. ^ N. Arielli, Fascist Italy and the Middle East, 1933-40, p. 47
2. ^ To the Royal Italian Consul General in Prague, Comm. Casto Caruso, on behalf of the Reich, was granted the erequatur on September 14, 1939.
3. ^ Italy M. Casto Caruso (arrived November 7th, 1946). M. Caruso was at one time assistant private secretary to Ciano, a post from which, he says, he was moved in 1938 at the request of the Germans. If so, it is odd that he should then have been appointed to Prague. It is also remarkable that his daughter, born in Prague should have been christened Franka. M. Caruso professes to co-operate closely with me, but I am not quite sure yet the I trust him. As Italy has not ratified the peace treaty, M. Caruso is not yet a member of the Committee of Control and our official relations are slight, and M. Caruso's chief concern is to pull his colony together and to restart the various Italian cultural institutions in Tangier. See Paul Preston, Michael Partridge, Peter Woodward, British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. From 1945 through 1950. Africa, 1947. Africa, January 1947-December 1947, Part 4, Volume 3, Great Britain. Foreign Office, University Publications of America, 2001 - 533 pages, ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
4. ↑ ELENA CALANDRI, Italy's Foreign Assistance Policy, 1959–1969, [1]

predecessor	Office	successor
Enrico Bombieri	Italian Ambassador in The Hague 1951–1954	Giorgio Benzoni di Balsamo
	Italian Ambassador to Athens 1954–1958	Gianpaolo Scarante