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Dazed by this array of great names and convinced that all would be lost anyway if the Russians got them, an impressive number of Robert's listeners pledged homes and savings to join his cause. At a small but moving ceremony in a Belgian convent at Ronse (The Netherlands was not yet ready for C.C.S.D., explained Robert), the members, all fitted out in bright new uniforms, reaffirmed their brilliantly caparisoned President in his great office. The walls were tastefully banked with flowers purportedly sent by "Winnie" and "Nottie," and President Robert was proud indeed as he displayed a letter...
From his book-cluttered room in a Roman convent, Don Luigi penned a reply for Giornale's front page: "La Pira is saying that the problem can be solved by the state taking over the nation's financial system entirely, thus abolishing that one-fourth of the productive system of Italy that is still in private hands. This would mean that Italy would have complete state socialism . . . First, let's get this straight. La Pira, a good Christian, wants no God but the true God. He thinks, as I do, that the state is a means...
...most dashing of them all was the Marchese Ugo Montagna. Soon Anna Maria was his acknowledged mistress, accepting an $800-a-month allowance and living with him openly. But last summer Ugo threw her over. La Caglio began to go to church, then retired to a Florence convent. Later, urged by her conscience and her confessor, she decided to tell...
...strengthen support inside the party. He courteously consulted ruffled deputies. He dashed off an earnest public message to Party Leader Alcide de Gasperi: "On my taking office . . . my first affectionate, devout and admiring thought goes to you." He made a personal trip out the New Appian Way to a convent where resides frail Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged priest who founded the Christian Democrat Party, was once Scelba's mentor (see box). Though Scelba was unable to persuade the last two Premiers (Amintore Fanfani and Giuseppe Pella) to serve in his cabinet, Attilio Piccioni, a right-winger, agreed...
Marie Dionne, 19, last-born, smallest and shyest of the famed quintuplets, said farewell to Papa and Mama Dionne in Callander, Ont., left for Quebec City to become a postulant in the convent of the Servants of the Very Holy Sacrament...