Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those pre-Fascist days keen, hard little King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy had picked hawk-eyed,, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided...
Benito Mussolini, after he became Premier, used Aloisi to set up one Zogu as Zog I, King of Italian-protected Albania (TIME, Sept. 10, 1928). Later the Baron was sent to Turkey, negotiated the famed Pact of Amity between Dictator Kemal and Dictator Mussolini. For Baron Aloisi last week Professor Jeze was a pushover. The Italian pointed out to French Premier Pierre Laval that Sorbonne professors are employes of the French State and that therefore Professor Jeze had no business representing Ethiopia while he was also working for France. After that, the professor was not invited to the scene...
There the Big Three of last week, grim Aloisi, affable Laval and Britain's young Captain Anthony Eden, who vividly remembers the talking-to he recently received in Rome from Il Duce, sat around devising what the League calls a "formula." Every few hours Baron Aloisi would read the latest text by long distance telephone to Premier Mussolini and the Dictator would snort, ''Unacceptable...
Died. Prince Alexis Mdivani, 31, youngest of the three "marrying Mdivanis," onetime husband of Heiresses Louise Astor Van Alen and Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised...
...Davis Cup team, was up against a tough question. The U. S. team had just managed to beat Germany in the interzone final (TIME, July 29). In the doubles, after match point had been called against them five times, Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn had nosed out Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Kay Lund in five long sets. Next day, Allison had, as expected, won his singles match against Heiner Henkel and Donald Budge had amazingly defeated von Cramm. This gave the U. S. the right to play England in the challenge round but instead of making Captain Wear...