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Having thus lightninged and thundered, Architect Warren ended his declaration with a statement mild as milk. He declared that the official translation of the inscription is "DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FOLLY; RESTORED BY AN AMERICAN GIFT." He added that Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain has finally ruled that the epithet "furore" shall stand. When curious persons turned to Latin dictionaries, last week, to see if "juror" could be stretched to mean "folly." they found as authorized synonyms "delusion," "frenzy," "madness," "rage" and "fury." Nobody's Latin except Architect Warren's could make "furor" mean "folly...
Honor was done to brown Umberto, however, by three personages: 1) British High Commissioner for Palestine Baron Plumer, who entertained him at Government House; 2) Patriarch Monsignor Barlassina (Roman Catholic), who donned a great purple robe and blessed Umberto; 3) good Father Aurelio Marotta "Custodian of the Holy Land and Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre" (Roman Catholic), who led His Royal Highness into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and showed him an empty tomb...
Figuratively speaking, Fascist Rome fulminated, last week, at Socialist Vienna. The quarrel started last fortnight when the Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel encouraged deputies in the Austrian Parliament to flay the alleged oppressive Italian administration now existing in the formerly Austrian province of Lower Tyrol (TIME, March 5). Last week Signor Benito Mussolini hurled back a reply from the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Cried...
Alluding scornfully to the present puny strength of Austria, Il Duce rapped: "We are not anxious about our northern frontier. Hannibal is not at our gates. Neither is Monsignor Seipel...
These charges are familiar, but what gave them weight last week was a statement by Chancellor of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel. He rose in the Austrian Parliament and declared "The treatment of the Lower Tyroleans is in our opinion incompatible with minority rights, and is a hindrance to further amicable relations between Austria and Italy, which are very desirable." To explain and excuse the Austrian Parliament's outspoken criticism of Italian Administration of the Lower Tyrol, Chancellor Seipel shrewdly added "the Italian Government must realize that there is quite a difference between interference in another nation's domestic...