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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...
...enforced) by the League of Nations during the Ethiopian campaign. Italians rallied behind him then. They may do so more generally now than the Allies expect. At least Mussolini has built up a façade of bravado, patterned on the ancient cry of the gladiators in the Colosseum : "Morituri te salutant" (Those who are about to die salute you). But in case the façade trembles or Darlans gnaw their way through it, Mussolini has made certain that those who helped him to power, and those who have been crawling on his back, will be with him when...
...King-Emperor and Realmleader past several of the most interesting relics of ancient Rome, all floodlighted- for Il Duce had stagemanaged that the Führer should drive past at 8:30 p. m. Soon the German Dictator sat up as though startled and amazed by the vast Roman Colosseum which seemed to be afire, glowing within by the light of thousands of red torches, while in each arch an Italian soldier stood at attention, silhouetted in full war gear; his steel helmet sharply outlined...