Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the fighting ceased in Ethiopia weeks ago, London and Rome continued last week to rehash ugly stories concerning the methods and materials employed in that African war. What stirred Britons to the highest pitch of indignation last spring against Benito Mussolini was the fact that
...tossed little country. Last week the same young man was ignominiously booted out as Vice Chancellor, his private army was ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg the swashbuckling Prince was made Patron of the Fatherland Front's Mother's Help Section...
Egypt is to Islam about what the U. S. is to Catholic Rome-an outland which provides large sums of money but gets modest recognition from the high church hierarchy. Until 1926 an annual train of Egyptian Mohammedan pilgrims made its way to Mecca, bringing gifts of money, grain and a newly woven black brocade carpet to cover Mecca's sacred, silver-incrusted Black Stone, a meteorite supposed to have fallen in Adam's time. To protect the Egyptian pilgrims from Ibn Saud's marauding Wahabi warriors went each year a company of Egyptian soldiers...
...hungry, all the morning to Widener for exhibition of many fine original manuscripts; and I stopt to read Robert Browning's "Love Among The Ruins", in his own script, and I did long for Rome and my heart did leap...
...Benito Mussolini who until last week France had always assumed would be "reasonable." Highly unreasonable to Paris sounded the Italian's speech proposing to take care of Ethiopia all by himself. Therefore French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin made haste to post off to Rome the sharpest note he had yet sent Benito Mussolini...