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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be separated from their history, and although they may personally be agreeable, even their presence in Austria and Hungary as private residents would endanger the peace of Europe. Jugoslavia and Italy are particularly threatened by possible restoration, since the Habsburg crown would exert a great temptation on the Roman Catholic Croats in Jugoslavia and the Catholic Tyrolese in Italy to join the recreated Empire. ... If Archduke Otto returns. Czechoslovakia will sever diplomatic relations with Austria." Thus, possibly because Austria's other crises were for the moment quiescent, louder than at any time in the past two years rose...
...Lenin memorial in Leningrad. Zorach, too, drew concentric cylinders but they represented a base for a shaft that telescoped into a streamlined statue of Lenin. Picking words that would sting most he declared of Iofan's work: "It goes back to the most decadent pseudo-Roman development, the sort of thing old kings and old queens loved, a sort of tremendous wedding cake . . . incorporating the worst archaic figures of the capitalistic system...
When a new saint is to be elevated by the Roman Catholic Church, vast St. Peter's in Rome is made ready for public ceremonial, its walls hung with red-&-gold draperies and great oil paintings depicting the life and works of the candidate. Myriad chandeliers light the enormous basilica. The canonization ceremonies may cost as much as $30,000, which is borne by persons interested in the new saint. Last week St. Peter's was alight, packed with pilgrims from all nations including many a white-bonneted nun. Cardinals Verdier of Paris and Lienart of Lille...
...major importance among the finding of the Fogg museum's archeological expedition to Yuge-Salvia are a Roman military road and a chain of forts built by the Emperor Trajan early in the second century. This Investigation, whose results have been announced this weekend, was conducted during the summer and fall of 1933, under the direction of Dr. Vladimir J. Fewkes and Rober W. Shrich, assisted by two attaches of the National Museum in Belgrade...
Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will give the first of a series of lectures on "The Free Communes of Mediaeval Italy" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. The first talk will be on "The Holy Roman Empire and Feudal Institutions in Italy during the 12th Century. The Rise of the Communes, or City States...