Alice Rohe (January 15, 1876 – April 7, 1957) was an American 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 Lawrence, Kansas, 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.'' ''

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'', 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 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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