President Luigi Einaudi of the Italian Republic receives foreign diplomats at New Year. The Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy.
CU trumpeter blowing fanfare, Various shots as a foreign diplomat is shown in. MS other diplomats coming to pay their respects to Einaudi. Various shots Einaudi with the Apostolic Nuncio, Monsieur Borgoncini Duca. MS Russian Ambassador, Mikhail Kostilev, shaking hands with the President. CU as Einaudi and Kostilev chat.
Various shots the Spanish Ambassador, Antonio De Sangroniz y Castro, shaking hands with the President. MS American ambassador, James Clement Dunn, shaking hands with the President. MS Belgian Ambassador, Andre Motte and wife shaking hands with the President. CU as Dunn and Einaudi chat. CU as they shake hands again and Dunn leaves. MS British Ambassador, Sir Victor Mallet, shaking hands with the President. CU as they chat. CU as they shake hands again and Mallet leaves.
MS French Ambassador, Fouques Duparc, shaking hands with the President, they shake hands again before Duparc leaves. MS the Lebanon representative shaking hands with the President. Various shots the Iranian representative shaking hands.
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