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...Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened or enlivened her. Had she possessed the taste for pearls, for magnificence, for pageantry of her late mother-in-law (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), the Dowager Queen Margherita, splendor-loving Italians might have enthroned Elena in their fickle hearts. But she is practical. Many an Italian soldier, wounded during the World War, knows that it was due to Queen Elena's good sense in supervising the Italian Red Cross that he was attended by old, uncomely nurses...
...demonstrations, held first or the roof of the Postoffice, later on Salisbury Plain and across Bristol Channel, were so successful that the Italian Government invited me home in 1897, to demonstrate at Spezia, and in Rome before King Humbert and Queen Margherita, Again success was mine. The distance over which I could send anc receive messages was constantly increasing-first a room's length then a building's, a mile, four miles ten miles, twenty miles...
...Margherita G. Sarfatti-Stokes (TIME, Feb. 8, Books...
...LIFE OF BENITO MUSSOLINI?From the Italian of Margherita G. Sarfatti?Stokes ($5). Emphatically, the Signora Sarfatti's biography must be read?if only because she is content to efface herself so often while the great Fascist thunders in his own words from her pages?reveals himself vividly in impetuous staccato phrases as compelling as those with which Napoleon Premier was wont to inspire and almost to hypnotize his armies...
...intend that the moral slur cast in the direction of Fascismo by the Aventine deputies shall be discussed immediately. Since our present session has been dedicated to a memorial service to Queen Margherita, I move that a special sitting to discuss the Aventine situation be convoked tomorrow...