Word: rome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both are young, personable, Roman Catholic. Many an inspired despatch has linked their names, praised her 'cello playing, his dexterity at the wheel of a roaring motor, her welfare work among Belgian babies, his dashing career as an Italian colonel. She met him first in Rome when she was only eleven, while spike-helmeted Germans were trampling her own Brussels. Last week he came with a suite of 31 Italian nobles to seek her hand. Only a bullet was needed to make completely romantic the engagement, officially proclaimed at Brussels, of Marie Jose, third child and only daughter...
...streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion of rightful King Amanullah (now in exile at Rome) the Conqueror and Liberator found himself last week in a slight quandary. Ambition and perhaps destiny called him to the Throne. Duty bade him proclaim the restoration of King Amanullah. Came a great warrior shout of "Nadir is our King!"-a pointed suggestion which, according to Mme Viollis, "the Conqueror...
...represented at the Five Power Naval Parley in London next January (TIME, Oct. 21). He rejoiced that during the week Japan, Italy and France had joined the U. S. in accepting invitations to the parley unconditionally. He promised on returning to London to communicate soon with Tokyo, Paris and Rome "in the same free and open way" as with President Hoover...
...armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general in the service of ousted King Amanullah, news of his triumph was received with elation by the exiled weakling in Rome...
...Nadir has always been more than loyal to me," said he with emotion. "But if he thinks his victory entitles him to the throne of Afghanistan then let him take it. Moreover I would be willing to be his minister to Rome. Just fancy, I, his one time master...