Word: colosseum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-six hours after royalist General Mario Roatta became a fugitive from Rome's anti-Fascist purge (TIME, March 12), the Communist newspaper, Unita, called upon Italians to demonstrate. To Colosseum Square marched 10,000 men & women. While red flags flapped from the walls that had once looked down on other gladiators. Socialist, Actionist and Communist orators shouted: "The monarchy must fall! We will not leave the streets till a republic is proclaimed...
Then he was off, by plane again, to Italy. In Rome last week, he lived at the maison mere of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (he is a member of the Order) near the Colosseum. The purpose of his trip, he said, was merely to visit Canadian troops, report to the Pope, as every bishop is required to do periodically...
Newsmen in Switzerland reported that the reprisals had just begun. Hours later, according to these reports, vans carried 300 to the ancient, crumbling Colosseum where once gladiators fought and Christians died. They had been picked at random...
Through a millennium and a half Rome has known many a German master. Now, as the bloody battle of Italy moves up from the south, Nazi tanks and cannon rumble not far from the Forum, Colosseum and Pantheon. Truck convoys roll by the churches, palaces and museums where the sculptures of the Caesars, the frescoes of the Renaissance are stored...
...summer sun, climbing toward warm noon, had started the heat waves dancing from the brown Tiber, from the seven ancient hills, from the great stone piazza before St. Peter's, from the dusty brick and weathered marble of the Colosseum and the Forum. Now out of that sun came the sound and the sight Rome had long been spared: the drone of a hostile air fleet, the wings of hostile bombers...