Alice Rohe (January 15, 1876 – April 7, 1957) was an

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author and

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. Rohe served as the first female bureau chief of a major American press service in

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. Alice Rohe was born January 15, 1876, in

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, United States. During the first World War she reported from Italy for the

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. She wrote about the principality of "

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" who served as one of America's smallest ally. She was arrested for spying twice but each time she was released. A later comment by

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described her as a "volunteer" which implies that she may have been serving as a spy. Rohe came back to the United States in 1935. She died on April 7, 1957, and donated her collection of Etruscan artifacts to the

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Bibliography

*'' Our Littlest Ally'' (1918)

Selected Written Resources

There are some selected written resources written by Alice Rohe. * ''Abdul Ba-ha Patriarchal Head of Bahaists in Denver With Message of Love and Justice to All and for All'', The Daily News, September 25, 1912 * ''Mackay Presents Woman As Leader In Human Progress.'' ''

The Baltimore Sun ''The Baltimore Sun'' is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news. Founded in 1837, the newspaper was owned by Tribune Publi ...

'', April 8, 1914 * ''Come, Die With Me' Begs Youth To a Stranger at Busy Corner, Colonel Adam Rohe, Visitor From Kansas Who Served in War Escapes From Would-Be-Suicide and Quickly Boards a Car.''

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, before 1915 * ''Hitch in Vatican Plan: Peace Program Believed to Have Encountered Difficulty...'', ''

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'', November 26, 1915 * ''Wait Action By Pope: Rome Diplomats See German Appeal to Vatican...'', Washington Post, December 2, 1915 * ''Peace Offer to Pope. Kaiser Said to Have Made Proposal Through the Vatican.'', Washington Post, December 5, 1915 * ''Women Weep in Rome's Poverty-Stricken San Lorenzo District For Their Men Who Are at Front.'' Washington Post, January 30, 1916 * ''American Newspapers Help Provide Hot Rations for Italians at Front.'' Washington Post, February 27, 1916 * ''Our Littlest Ally.''

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34 (August, 1918):138-63 * ''Queen Santa Claus.''

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69 (December 1919):15-16, 121-125 * ''Snaps of Macedonia.'' Travel 35 (May 1920):11-15 * ''The Story of Susan Glaspell.'',

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, December 18, 1921, Sec. 2 * ''Mussolini, Hope of Youth, Italy's 'Man of Tomorrow. ''

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'', November 5, 1922 * ''New Italian Renascence.'' The Bookman 56 (June 1923): 653-55 * ''At Last Native American Plays.'',

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, April 12, 1924 * ''Only in a Crowd Could I Do It.'',

Collier's } ''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter F. Collier, Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened i ...

73 (Jan. 26, 1924):15 * ''American Repertoire Theatre?'', The Independent 112 (June 7, 1924): 317-18 * ''Pirandella's Warning.'' The Forum 71 (June 1924):791 * ''Only in America.'', The Independent 114 (April 11, 1925):405 * ''I Was Dying—I Made It My Job to Get Well.'', Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan 78 (May 1925): 34 * ''Why I Fled Italy.'', Reader's Digest, 28 (April 1936):47-50. "Mussolini, Lady Killer.",

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124 (July 31, 1937): 27.

References

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