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...delegation of civic patriots from Caltagirone, Sicily, sought the dark, high-ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi last week and humbly petitioned that he would deign to raise their region to the rank of a province...
When will there be another non-Italian Pope? A Dutchman, broad and beaming, was revered by Roman Catholics some 400 years ago as Adrian VI (1522-23), but his successors have all been Italians. Their names are the historic name of Italy: Medici, Borghese, Chigi, Rospigliosi. . . . Last week, as the Consistory of Dec. 20 approached, it was rumored that His Holiness would raise the plenum (total number) of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 70 to 80, and appoint a sufficient number of non-Italian Cardinals to make the election of a non-Italian Pope a practicable possibility...
...Premier, continuing to his office in the Palazzo Chigi, sat down unemotionally at a typewriter and personally typed off his deposition of facts concerning the attempted crime for the police. To newsgatherers who sought him he said: "Ha! For once you gentlemen have 'copy' enough? Tell foreigners who take an interest in me and all Italians abroad, that bombs explode, but Mussolini tranquilly remains at his post, facing any danger, because this is his precise duty...
...silvery blimp dipped. A Roman rabble surged and roared. Four plumed steeds cavorted proudly, their path cleared by resplendent policemen. At the Palazzo Chigi out of a triumphal oldtime open coach, stepped General of the Air Umberto Nobile (TIME, Aug. 2, SCIENCE), to be saluted and embraced in person by his swart Excellency, Benito Mussolini. Shortly, master and man appeared on the Chigi balcony, where Mussolini's jowls became suffused with blood, his muscular throat thick with emotion...
...onetime Socialist deputy Tito Zaniboni was pounced upon by Roman policemen as he peeped through the telescopic sights of a rifle. For hours thousands of Fascists howled for Zaniboni's blood. Then Signor Mussolini?well knowing that the rifle had been trained upon a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi whence he had been scheduled to speak?stepped dramatically upon that balcony and cried: "Fascists, No Revenge! You will obey! You will take no revenge upon Zaniboni, because I wish...