Word: divorc
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Legal separation was almost in sight, when King Vittorio Emanuele paraded in amid royal salutes and arches of triumph (TIME, March 24). Fiume was annexed to Italy. D'Annunzio's poetic views on divorce were automatically supplanted by the bigoted fixity of the Italian Coda Civile. Lady Marconi is the first would-be divorcée to have a country shot from under her by treaty. On account of her position at the Court, it is thought unlikely that-following the fashion in Italian divorces—she will take the step of establishing a residence in Hungary...
...first would-be divorcée to have a country shot from under...
Died. General Maurice César Josef Pelle, 61, onetime French Ambassador to Constantinople, famed "father" of the French Catholics in Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...