Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connaught Square at the unveiling of the Canadian national war memorial. There was a reveille, the King placed a wreath at the foot of the shaft, tall redcoats holding standards stepped away, and the memorial was unveiled. The King spoke, with what some thought was a hint to Rome and Berlin...
When President German Busch carved Bolivia into a totalitarian state three weeks ago, he announced proudly that it was his own doing, that Rome and Berlin had not helped. Last week Bolivia announced a barter agreement with Germany. For German machinery, a 350-mile pipeline across the Gran Chaco, and an oil refinery in Paraguay, Bolivia planned to ship some $15,000,000 of goods, principally petroleum, to oil-hungry Nazis. The man who made the announcement was not mournful Dictator Busch, but his tough, roving-eyed sidekick and Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Dionisio Foianini...
...down as an outcropping of the Roosevelt Good Neighbor policy, the motives behind Countess Ciano's visit were less apparent, perhaps more subtle. The clever, scheming, 32-year-old Edda is no mean politician and diplomat. She was one of the behind-the-scenes architects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. As the apple of Papa Benito's eye, pro-German Daughter Edda was largely instrumental in persuading II Duce to go the whole hog in his attachment to the German Führer...
...Rome it was said that the Countess' physicians had ordered a sea trip for her long-suffering lungs. At the same time she would be able to visit friends that Count Ciano made in Rio in 1925, when he was an Italian consul there. The Countess traveled with tall, blonde, plump Marchesa Aleazzo Guido di Bagno, wife of the man who represents the hotel industry in the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. The Countess and the Marchesa are considered leaders of Rome's younger smart...
When Francisco Franco restored his private property, Spain's ex-King Alfonso, exiled in Rome, donned the ecclesiastical-looking robes of the Spanish Military Order, meekly said: "I am a simple soldier, obedient to the orders of Generalissimo Franco...