Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having suggested on a certain point that the Premier simply ring up the King by telephone, told of Il Duce's reproving reply: "Such lack of respect is not to be shown His Majesty! Audience must always be sought in advance." Last week Italy's reigning King-Emperor and her ruling Dictator joined in visibly correcting what has become outside Italy a pretty general misconception...
Meanwhile, the King-Emperor and the Realmleader entered the first of a procession of State victorias. Into the others piled Italian and German statesmen and officers. Then off all clattered, escorted by mounted cuirassiers of the ancient House of Savoy in gleaming breastplates...
...orders on the visit of the Fuhrer. Even the railway station at which he arrived was especially built outside the walls of Rome, connected up with the Eternal City by the brand new Viale Adolfo Hitler. This stately avenue and the Via Dell'Impero led the 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...
...King-Emperor took the Realmleader not to the Villa Torlonia (the palace in which Mussolini lives on a long rental lease), but to the House of Savoy's majestic Palazzo del Quirinale. * Here Der Führer was lodged in the suite of Crown Prince Umberto, who makes his home in Naples...
Second Day. During the night the Realmleader slept on his green private train between Rome and Naples, the King-Emperor slept on his blue private train, and Il Duce was up until 2 a. m. on his private train, arranging last-minute details of the morrow's great Italian Navy display -190 warboats totaling 300.000 tons, the largest European concentration of war craft since the World...