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Conservative observers, however, looked for the election of an Italian archbishop, not too old, such as Milan's Cardinal Schuster, Venice's Patriarch-Cardinal Piazza, Turin's Cardinal Fossati-or even Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli, despite the fact that Secretaries of State have in recent years seldom been considered papabile...
Hitler-"Then end the meeting and in shaking his hand you tell him nicely: 'You are old and I am young. To get your answer, I will meet you part way. It will be at Milan...
...elegant, hollow-eyed Margherita Sarfatti, once a great personal friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted a raise from Hearst, she helped to negotiate...
...Government prepared for another general election this week, Croatian intractability again appeared. With the Government counting the votes, however, it seemed certain last week that affable, hearty-voiced, heavy-browed Milan Stoya-dinovitch, half dictator, half democrat, who occupies the posts of both Premier and Foreign Minister, would be returned to power...
Schoolboys who retain from their history books an image of a pale, young Napoleon seizing the tricolor at the Battle of Arcole know the work of Baron Antoine Jean Gros. A pupil of David, the court painter and classicist, Gros took the field after he met Bonaparte at Milan and accompanied his army during the first Italian campaign. Charged by the Emperor with the duty of selecting artistic booty, he is responsible for the nucleus of the Louvre's vast treasury. Little known in the U. S., Gros was represented last week at Knoedler's by 17 pictures...