Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salute over, Signor Starace read the Grand Council's decision: The Albanian Constituent Assembly (set up by Italy after Albania's conquest) had offered the Albanian crown to Vittorio Emmanuele III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. With "virile joy" the Council, guardian of the Crown's prerogatives, accepted the offer. Up from the huge square went more roars of approval. As Empire Builder Mussolini moved forward to speak, the thousands below called for more of the same. Up to the balcony came cries of "On to Paris!" "Tunisia!" "Down with France!" Speaker Mussolini replied with...
...thing, Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emmanuele III differ about the future of the House of Savoy. II Duce is amused by his little King, but far from amused by Crown Prince Umberto, Italy's most stubborn antiFascist. The Fascist oath of allegiance, once addressed "to the King and his successors," has been shorn of the last three words. Crown Prince Umberto rarely appears at Fascist celebrations. His sympathizers like to say that he once challenged Benito Mussolini to a duel, still speaks to him like a Prince addressing his Premier...
While not politically of much power, the royal family nevertheless has strong adherents in the Army and Navy. Crown Prince Umberto is regarded as an Army man, faithfully appears at Army functions. No legislation of II Duce has been more unpopular than his anti-Jewish decrees, and in no place were they more unpopular than in the Navy...
Unhappy over his lot because of all these things, Vittorio Emmanuele III has several times been rumored on the point of abdication. Last week correspondents learned that when the mild little King heard of Premier Mussolini's plans to invade Albania, he sent Crown Prince Umberto to call on His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, not once but twice. One interview lasted 45 minutes. Its burden: Rome and Berlin having been politically hyphenated while the King was on the throne, there was nothing he personally could do about splitting the combination; but perhaps if he abdicated in favor...
Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair: Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and beauteous Crown Princess Ingrid, who are making a 34-day goodwill tour of the U. S. Same weekend, his "farewell tour" almost completed, appeared Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...