Word: gregori
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...Orvieto's Bishop Piero announced: " ....Generously condescending to my humble request, His Holiness has granted that Orvieto's precious reliquary be carried in Rome's procession this jubilee year of 1950." Orvietans, gathered in front of the notice, were astounded. They turned to Communist Mayor Giuseppe Gregori for an explanation...
...Gregori, a professor of Greek, an intellectual of charm and ability with fine brown eyes and a fine-featured face, disclaimed responsibility. Said he: "I don't know. I learn of it now." People exclaimed: "But aren't you the reliquary's keeper?" Said Mayor Gregori in soft tones: "I am the reliquary's keeper, but who am I to enter into a religious question? I am under a cloud. What can a Communist do against the spiritual power of the church...
People said: "But you must do something!' Mayor Gregori shook his head. 'Communists aren't in power in Italy. It was your wish that they shouldn't be. I respect your wish. Why, only last night I sent my key back to the bishop as a sign of courtesy...
...Mayor Gregori did express concern for the precedent set by the bishop. He conjectured that any bishop at any time might now send Orvieto's reliquary here, there or anywhere...
Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...