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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: The scurrilous, malicious and vicious attacks of correspondents Oftedal and Schiorring on unfortunate explorer Nobile are a product of stupidity, ignorance and immaturity. . . . We of Italian blood admire Amundsen as we admire all brave men. We regret his predicament as we regret the predicament of the "Italia" which has cost Italy the lives of several equally as brave if not as renowned men, but we must insist that Nobile is in no way responsible for Amundsen's predicament. . . . In view of such dirigible disasters as the Shenandoah. the Dismeale, the Roma and the R34 and especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Many a Papist sincerely believes that the Dictator has not changed his spots, and considers him to be a purely secular Despot who tolerates and uses the Church for his own ends. Recently when Signor Mussolini felt himself strong enough to suppress all Italian Papist youth organizations, such as the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts, he did so (TIME, April 9). On the other hand Il Duce extends to Il Papa every formal consideration, professes a strong desire to negotiate a Concordat with the Holy See, and retains in his Cabinet as Minister of Colonies famed Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Grande Romanzo | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...extract from Claudia an answer to the still hotly debated question of whether Benito Mussolini is a turncoat politician who changed his Socialist red bandanna for a black Fascist shirt from motives of the basest opportunism. Pertinent and even damning in this connection is the fact that most Italian Socialist leaders who were friends of II Duce's youth now languish in exile or in Fascist jails. But even this fact will not deter a reader of Claudia from wondering if Socialist Mussolini may not have been a Fascist at heart all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Grande Romanzo | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Sportsmen, cinemaddicts joined the mayor's handshakers to welcome the Italian soccer team arriving on the Duilio. Reasons: They are the European champions of this year's Olympics†; Pietro Pastore, of their number, is reputedly indistinguishable from the late Rudolph Valentino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...fare she had paid him to transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic jam, and "the horses on St. Mark's, not content with winking, were stamping and frisking their tails; the winged lion was heard to laugh lecherously." Once in the jungles of Java, Catherine forgot her Norseman, and succumbed with Philip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun and Forget | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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