Word: iii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warburg '30 and John Walker III '30 leave today for New York to assemble pictures for the coming exhibit. Among the painters whose works will undoubtedly be represented in their selection are Laurencin, Chirico, Dufy, and Miro. Sculptors such as Despiau and Maillol will also find themselves among those whose works are to be chosen. The absence from the exhibition of paintings by Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Bracque is explained by the fact that their work will be included in the display of the Fogg Museum, inasmuch as these artists fall on the border line between the nineteenth and twentieth...
...Papal precincts since 1870. The estrangement between Pope and King which then began has now been so thoroughly patched up by the Treaty signed last fortnight that next June, according to announcements made last week, the Royal State Coach will clatter up to the Vatican, and King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay a call which the Supreme Pontiff will speedily return...
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...next morning war broke out between France and Germany. Napoleon III had to take his troops out of Italy. Pio Nono, who all this while had been protected by France, was defenseless. On the 20th of September Victor Emmanuel, one of the greedy Kings, seized Rome and took away the lands of Pio Nono...
With a solemn flourish and a little very black ink His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III last week signed away the Constitutional right of Italians to democratic government. This was the last act in a drama which began three years ago?a great drama for which Signor Mussolini supplied the livid theme...