Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least your editor might have taken a tip from Alex Woollcott, who tells in While Rome Burns (1934) the amusing story that when G. K. Chesterton heard of Mr. Shaw's morbid pronouncement, he professed himself willing to substitute for one of the elephants...
...Herald headlined: "NEUTRALITY NOTE SPLITS F. D., HULL." This was over a United Press story to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to blast at the Senate, that Mr. Hull was restraining him lest he irreparably widen the gulf between him and his Senate opponents, and further antagonize the Rome-Berlin Axis...
...Tyrolese hoped that this exponent of "One People, One State, One Leader" would soon look into their case. The Führer soon showed, however, that he would not allow the plight of a mere 200,000 Germans to interfere with the destiny of some 80,000,000. At Rome, in May 1938, the Führer declared before Il Duce that the present Italian-German frontiers were inviolable...
Like many another Italian War hero, young Dino Grandi had turned to the post-War Fascist movement to satisfy an acquired taste for action. He rose fast and, as Chief of Staff for the Quadrumvirs, stage-managed the March on Rome and Mussolini's meeting with King Vittorio Emmanuele III. In 1929, when he was 34, Dictator Mussolini promoted him from Undersecretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...political exile from Fascism or Naziism has a difficult time traveling about Europe these days. The man who would be arrested on sight in one Axis country would probably find conditions uncomfortably hot for him in the other. Since the Rome-Berlin Axis cuts Europe squarely in two, this state of affairs compels an exile going from eastern Europe to western Europe, for example, to chart a circuitous route...