Word: quirinale
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In Rome one night last week armored cars clattered through the streets to the Quirinal Palace and heavily armed carabinieri doubletimed to the piazza in front of Crown Prince Umberto's spreading, magnificent home. The common man ran for cover; he did not want to be caught in the...
After nearly two months of hemming & hawing, Italy had a new Premier (Ferruccio Parri, a man of the North), and a new Government (representing six parties instead of four). Last week Premier Parri led his 20 Ministers into Rome's Quirinal Palace, where each swore before Crown Prince Umberto...
The issues then rested, while Italy stewed. There were reports of comings & goings between the Quirinal and the Vatican, where the U.S. had Harold Tittmann, a foreign service veteran, and Britain had Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Leeds. Papal Envoy Enrico Galeazzi showed...
The Marshal haggled not only for terms but against time. The longer the men at the Quirinal held to war and their German alliance, the more restive the people grew.
Benito Mussolini was under arrest and not under arrest; in solitary confinement and under house guard; seized while trying to flee Italy and seized in the Quirinal; held for his own safety and held for delivery to the Allies. If he dreamed of asylum somewhere abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt'...