Word: colonna
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...Italian quarters - it was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome-fruit peddlers and bootblacks told enquiring reporters v/hat they thought of Italy's war on Greece, but would not give their names or addresses, lest they be accused of belonging to the quinta colonna (fifth column...
Within one hour of this announcement, Franklin Roosevelt instructed lanky, prim William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, to call on Premier Mussolini. Afterwards Ambassador Phillips saw Foreign Minister Ciano twice. And in Washington the Italian Ambassador. Prince Ascanio Colonna, visited Under Secretary of State Welles and both stalked up the street, flecked with the shadows of spring foliage, to call on the President...
...Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when Ambassador Phillips had his third meeting of the week with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and, in Washington, President Roosevelt received Italian Ambassador Prince Ascanio Colonna. Benito Mussolini was reported to have sent this message to Franklin Roosevelt: "Does the United States understand my position...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt held a portentous conference with Italian Ambassador Don Ascantlo Colonna today while in far off Tokyo U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew abruptly cancelled plans for a visit to Washington...
...miles from Rome in the Alban Hills, reported mysterious fouling of their nets and shadowy hulks beneath the blue-grey water on clear days, told tall tales of two legendary floating palaces once belonging to monstrous Emperor Caligula, now rotting in the mud. In 1446 curious Cardinal Prospero Colonna made the first attempt to raise the pleasure barges, succeeded only in irreparably damaging their superstructures with the iron grappling hooks...