Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Fascista Grand Council, which was to have taken place during the past week, has been postponed to Jan. 28. Il Popolo d'ltalia, considered as Mussolini's journal, printed a long resume of the achievements of the Fascista régime and alluded to "the imminent election." This was taken to mean that the Premier would soon announce the dissolution of Parliament and formally call for new elections. Decrees to this effect were expected before Jan. 28. It was declared that the Fascista Grand Council will discuss only electoral strategy...
...Crown Prince committing a comme il ne faut...
With almost the entire country in a pre-election state of mind owing to Premier Mussolini's action in closing, locking, bolting and barring Parliament (TIME, Dec. 24), Italian political circles suffered from a severe attack of nerves when "il duce" (the leader-Mussolini) wrote to Signor Carnazza, Minister of Public Works, and said he "had not decided" to hold general elections...
Hitherto, it was not comme il faut (in fact it was considered "indecent") for a royal prince to marry for love. The Crown Prince, breaker of precedents, loved his Princess, but he had to battle for her with Prince Yamagata, the most formidable of the Elder Statesmen-a fact which increased his popularity with the people...
Three days later the Public Consistory was held in the Hall of Benedictions, which is above the façade of St. Peter's basilica. At 10 o'clock in the morning cheers of 'Viva il Papa announced the advent of His Holiness, who was borne into the hall in the sedia gestatoria, which was carried on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarit...