Word: romano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on the second day after Italy went to war, the Pope's newspaper failed to appear for the first time since 1870. Official explanation for Osservatore Romano's nonappearance: "The printing press has broken down." But on other occasions when its seven-year-old U. S. press has failed to function, Osservatore has appeared in mimeograph...
Fascist partisans favored ousting Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre of Osservatore Romano, even though his paper, now confined to the Vatican, had abandoned its impartial stand, no longer mentioned the word "democracies." Count Dalla Torre acquired two bodyguards...
...Cremona Regime Fasdsta: "Since September . . . Osservatore and the Holy See have had a common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again. That day Editor Dalla Torre printed 150,000 copies, speeded up the Vatican's little press until it almost shook apart...
...last Fascist police went into action. All street sales of Osservatore Romano outside the Vatican were prohibited. In Vatican City a newsstand was set up, guarded by agents of the Holy See. Guards were stationed inside the Santa Anna Gate, along the dead-end street which leads to the Osservatore Romano office. Last week's print order dropped to 35,000 copies, and half of these were stacked in the plant, undelivered...
Most of Osservatore Romano's war news had been printed in a column called Acta Diurna, in which squat, dark, astute Professor Guido Gonella, with a strong pro-Ally slant, digested daily communiques from London, Paris, Berlin. Editor Dalla Torre dropped Professor Gonella's column. Without Acta Diurna, Osservatore Romano came out as usual for subscribers, but the last free paper in Italy had been bottled up, almost as good as suppressed...