Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cattolica) is no longer nonpolitical, has become in fact the mechanism for putting into action a Catholic political plot. This plot, II Lavoro charged, was discussed at a recent conclave of Azione Cattolica, addressed by Monsignor Pizzardo, Under Secretary of State of the Papal State. He advocated, according to Il Lavoro, action by Azione Cattolica to seize the Italian State and set up a "Catholic dictatorship." What happens in hot-blooded countries when they are highly organized soon happened. A marching column of young Fascists pounced on a Papal State mail truck, halted by their parade in the square directly...
Upon the prostrate portrait of His Holiness, the Fascist youths stamped, tramped. Italian police, present by this time in large numbers, made no arrests but gradually, persuasively dispersed the tramplers. Next day it was known that Il Duce had frowned an awful frown upon such hot deeds. But high words continued in the press...
...Osservatore, harking back to Il Lavoro's original anti-Fascist "Catholic plot," printed a denial by Monsignor Pizzardo that he had ever incited the Italian League for Catholic Action to any action other than religious action. The Bishop of Andria, present at the Catholic Action meeting in question, confirmed Monsignor Pizzardo's denial "before God and in the presence of witnesses...
...Rome does, so does Warsaw. Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski is remarkably like Dictator Benito Mussolini, except that he is lazier, more temperamental. II Duce bothers to be Premier of Italy. Marshal Pilsudski will not bother often to be Premier of Poland. Il Duce appoints and demotes his henchmen to & from offices as Governor of Rome, taking care that no man holds power too long. Last week it was time for Dictator Pilsudski to demote from the office of Premier of Poland Col. Walery Slawek and appoint in his stead Col. Alexander Prystor...
...girl was asked her name by Premier Benito Mussolini in Rome she refused to tell. He, pleased by her super-service on a long distance call to the Italian Embassy in Berlin, demanded her name. Still she refused. Last week the Embassy discovered but did not betray her secret. Il Duce invited her to spend her vacation in Rome "as the guest of the Italian Government...