Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Part Two an equally momentous pledge was officially phrased in two ways, one way for Rome, the other for Addis Ababa. Haile Selassie read...
Painful was the distress in Washington of kindly Secretary of State Cordell Hull. He has been receiving cold advance dope from Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Rome for two months that The Deal was on its way, but as a gentleman he found himself unable to believe anything so unflattering to his gentlemen friends and the gentlemen friends of Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham in the London Government. Paradoxically, able Ambassador Breckinridge Long has been getting much of his cold dope from British Ambassador Eric Drummond, now in Rome after 14 years as Secretary General of the League of Nations...
...Moscow and in Rome last week a Russian and an Italian thanked their stars that they work for William Randolph Hearst. The Red Dictatorship and the Black had each clapped into jail a native Hearstman: in Russia, faithful Translator and Legman Zachary Levovich Mikhailov; in Rome, longtime Bureau Chief Guglielmo Emanuel. The Russian was convicted of espionage, sentenced to be shot. The Italian was kept incommunicado in a cell for 52 days while his journalist friends thought he, too, had been jugged...
...Rome from Berlin on cabled orders from Publisher Hearst himself hopped trouble-shooting Hudson ("Buzz") Hawley. He found rumors buzzing that Emanuel had been "shot in the back as a spy." These jittery reports proved baseless when Correspondent Emanuel defended himself wittily before a Fascist court in which he was accused of nothing more serious than "obtaining" information of a military character. This information had been innocently posted to Bureau Chief Emanuel by a minor Italian stringman acting on his own initiative in ignorance of present drastic Italian war news curbs. Admitting that he received this letter. Correspondent Emanuel chirped...
...expression current (three weeks ago) in Rome, Italy, which may, or may not be of use to you. It struck me as a TIME type: "Hoare's is the voice breathed over Eden." 0. HASBROUCK Northampton, Mass...