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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold wedding rings, gold cups and gold medals presented by Italians to their State to speed the war (TIME, Dec. 30), the Bank of Italy announced that the "gold" medal given to His Excellency Benito Mussolini by His Holiness Pope Pius XI to commemorate the solution of the Roman Question had turned out to be gold only on the surface. Thousands of gold wedding rings proved to have lead cores. The Fascist Press was highly incensed about the "solid gold" cup presented by the Lord Mayor of London seven years ago to the Governor of Rome. Brought to the Bank...
...Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them, a project dear for hundreds of years...
Flavius Josephus, or Joseph ben Matthias, as his fellow-Jews called him, was a queer sort of hero. Feuchtwanger's first volume told how Josephus, after fighting the Romans like an unexceptionable patriot, turned his cloak into a toga to save what he might from the wreck of Judea. Thereafter he never completely got back his countrymen's confidence, never altogether won the Romans' respect. Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled...
...Titus gave freer rein to the antiSemites. Josephus' wife and son left him; his other son (by an earlier marriage) died, partly through his neglect. He went back to Judea, visited the desolate site of what had once been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors of the Law. Sadly he returned to Rome again, determined to be neither hidebound Roman nor hidebound Jew but a citizen of the world. He got back in time...
After this hard-hitting, fact-marshaling speech the resigned Foreign Secretary was overwhelmed by the general House of Commons atmosphere of hysteria and tears, tottered out weeping. The appointment as his successor of Robert Anthony Eden, a handsome young man with ancestors who were Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, was the one logical move in a British fortnight of illogic. In the popular mind "Eden" stands for going whole hog against Italy, but in the House of Commons he has said that The Deal or any other arrangement acceptable to Italy, Ethiopia and the League would not be opposed...