Word: demetrio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudest mark of Spanish Republican disapproval came from Rome. One Demetrio Solamon, Egyptian-born and successively naturalized Greek and Spanish, took a train from Madrid to Rome, marched into St. Peter's last week with an old valise, checked it at the central gate, then wandered out into the bright sunlight of St. Peter's Square. Some time later a Fascist militia officer wandered idly about the swarthy man standing near the great obelisk with his fingers in his ears. Almost immediately there was a great dusty explosion. Demetrio Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw...