Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest South American guessing game last week was based on the questions: Is Dictator German Busch a fascist or a democratic dictator? Will Bolivia join the Anti-Comintern Pact? First guesses from Rome and Tokyo looked rosy for fascists...
...Tokyo, up popped Kovichi Seito, hitherto unheard of Japanese brother-in-law of Dictator Busch. Guessed Seito: Bolivia will soon join the Anti-Comintern Pact. Guessed Bolivian Minister Dr. Antonio Campero Arce in Rome: Bolivia is a totalitarian State, it will soon join the Pact. Kept guessing in Washington, U. S. observers guessed hardest about Bolivia's oil barter deal with Germany, gasped at a rumor that an ex-German staff officer in Bolivia swung...
...Rome of a bright spring morning. A vast, good-humored mob filled St. Peter's Square, craned necks toward the Arch of Bells. Suddenly the cheers exploded. Through the Arch of Bells into the square came Pope Pius XII, in gold-embroidered cape, followed by a brilliantly robed procession. The Pope climbed into a glistening, open-topped convertible sedan. Into nine other limousines clambered his retinue. By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow...
...procession halted in the courtyard before the Lateran Palace. There, while ranks of Roman aristocracy knelt in homage, and Swiss Guards presented halberds, Rome's Vice-Governor, Prince Francesco Dentice d'Accadia, welcomed the Pope in the name of the city. Within the Palace, respectfully around the Pope, gathered his relatives, the former King of Spain & family, the entire diplomatic corps, high government and army officials, high lay dignitaries...
...countries forgathered at the New York World's Fair last fortnight to hold their three-day World Congress of Writers. Quietly and peaceably the writers filed into the egg-shaped, modernistic Hall of Music. But once inside, they threw down their pens with a bang heard in Berlin, Rome and Burgos, declared war to the last drop of ink on Dictators Hitler, Mussolini and Franco...