Biographical information; Jacques Reinstein; planning for postwar Italy; anti-Italian feelings on the part of the British; Palmiro Togliatti and the communist movement in Italy; General John Hilldring; political developments in postwar Italy; postwar Rome characterized; the Italy-Yugoslavia border issue; the Marshall Plan; transfers to China in 1948; evaluates the communist movement in China; Chiang Kai-shek evaluated; the issue of aid to Mao Tse-tung; the communist occupation of Nanking; Leighton Stuart; negotiating for U.S. bases in Spain