Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repudiating rumors that King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto opposed the Axis policy which might have carried Italy into war, the Foreign Minister said that on the contrary His Majesty and His Royal Highness, foreseeing this possibility, had "asked the privilege and honor of serving the country in arms...
Year ago in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, "spontaneous" demands for "Tunisia! Corsica! Djibouti!" all French protectorates, were vociferously raised. Last week Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda, lamented that the two outlets to Italy's mare nostrum, the Mediterranean, were "closed," suggested it would be nice for Italy if British...
After spending 15 days in Rome waiting to be presented to the King of Italy and instead listening to the anti-Soviet demonstrations of Fascist youths, Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Gorelchin suddenly departed for home, leaving the impression that he is not likely to return to such a hostile capital very...
A huntin', shootin' and fishin' aristocrat of old England is Esme Ivo Bligh, 9th Earl of Darnley, a product of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, a major in the R.A.F. right through World War I. Last week he startled the Empire by rising in the...