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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final ounce of boldness probably came, last fortnight, when the Dictator closed and bade farewell to the last democratically elected parliament of Italy. When the new Chamber meets, next Spring, it will consist entirely of Deputies hand picked by the Fascist Grand Council. There will be no Opposition. In the words of Il Capo to the departing deputies...
...flower upon the coat lapel is the authentic badge of Bolshevism, but even this fact does not dissuade the Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch Romanov-surviving cousin and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas the Last-from wearing whenever he chooses a red boutonniere. Thus last week His Imperial Highness, who is now lecture-touring U. S. cities, received smart Manhattanites in his suite at the Hotel Ritz with a blood-red rosebud peeping from his buttonhole. The thing was urbanely and genuinely done. "I am of no party," smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting...
Terrible Things! Ensconced at the Ritz, last week, Grand Duke Alexander said, in fluent but slightly stilted English: "A proletarian visited me this morning. Yes, a proletarian-the clothes very rough and dirty! He had just returned from Russia. He told me terrible things! . . . But I look-the Imperial Family looks-for a change...
...Tsar Cyril." Unlike most expounders of Spirituality, the Grand Duke Alexander turns readily to crisp and factual themes. As he paced toweringly about his hotel drawing-room, last week, it was not hard to see him as once he was, as the stern quarterdecker, "The Admiral of the Fleet" to Tsar Nicholas the Last...
When asked in whom the Imperial succession should now reside, he rapped: "Unquestionably in the Grand Duke Cyril! If it is a question of law-of right-he must be Tsar. Who else? The Grand Duke Nicholas...