124. Editorial Note
Clare Booth Luce resigned as Ambassador to Italy on November 19. On November 24, the President appointed James D. Zellerbach as the new Ambassador. (Department of State Bulletin, December 3, 1956, page 902) Zellerbach was President of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Chairman of the America-Italy Society of San Francisco, and former Chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration Special Mission to Italy, 1948–1950.
Ambassador Luce had raised the question of resignation repeatedly during her conversations with the President and Secretary of State in January, citing reasons of health. A memorandum from John W. Hanes, Jr., February 28, states that the President and Secretary Dulles had requested that she remain in Italy through 1956, and that she had agreed. (Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Meetings with the President)
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