Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile in Brussels' central police station detectives were learning things from the unsuccessful assassin. Speaking with difficulty through a broken jaw which he had acquired en route, the young man said that his name was Fernando di Rosa originally of Milan, Italy. An avowed antiFascist, di Rosa escaped from Italy over a year ago, crossing the French frontier on skis at night. In Paris he studied law at the Sorbonne, only leaving his little room in the Latin Quarter, to attend meetings of the Matteoti Club, a minor anti-Fascist secret society. It was at a meeting of this...
...grown so bumble-headed as to plot the assassination of Crown Prince Umberto as a blow against Fascism. For years it has been rumored that H. R. H. is the member of the Italian Royal Family most estranged from Dictator Mussolini. Most antiFascists regard the Crown Prince's name as the best one around which to rally a revolution which should "deliver" Italy, yet preserve the Throne. Commonly in antiFascist circles the tale is told that H. R. H. once sent II Duce a challenge to duel...
...bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays-your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two squadrons of the royal bodyguard...
...elaborate tug boat, complete with miniature barges. But there was no such gift last week. No barge company had felt the urge. Tactfully His Majesty's mother, frugal Princess Helen, explained that he would receive presents from the Royal Family not on his real birthday but on his name day, the custom in Rumania. However there was a nice gentleman waiting in the antechamber with quite a lot of presents...
...hierarchy of the Soviet Union. They were already the Autonomous Republic of Tadjikistan, They would now like to make use of their "autonomy" to proclaim themselves the Independent Republic of Tadjikistan. Would that be all right? Last week Dictator Stalin signified that it would. Straightway grateful Tadjiks changed the name of their capital from Diushambe to Stalinabad...