Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touched. Last week the U. S. battle fleet eased itself through the Panama Canal, sailed into the Pacific, rationed and ammunitioned for long-range action. Japan's officialdom appeared touched. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita made agreeable sounds to the effect that Japan's partnership in the Berlin-Rome axis was for purely anti-Communist reasons: Japan wanted no part in attacking the Democracies...
Urbane Parisians, who have long 'done most of their newspaper reading between the lines, suspected last week that the Rome-Berlin newspapers would be made to behave rather than be suppressed, but that before long the Rightist Premier may suppress outright the Communist dailies L'Humanite and Ce Soir...
...cleared his throat, changed the subject and went on, but the heart had gone out of the act. The speech over, the Blackshirts, innocent of their error and still warm with the thought of comforts to come, hurried out and treated the town to a mass souse such as Rome has not seen since the days of Caligula...
...evening of October 16, the treaty was signed while church bells rang and a crowd clamored outside the town hall. It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon. Mussolini took a special train from Rome to Milan, drove a racing car from Milan to Stresa, a speedboat from Stresa to Locarno. Briand, always in bed by nine if possible, was asleep two hours after the signing. But he was stirred: "It is ended," he said later, "that long war between us. Ended those long veils of mourning for the pains that will never be assuaged. Away with...
...graduate of Fordham University, trained for the priesthood in Rome's North American College-the alma mater of many a member of the U. S. hierarchy-Father Spellman was made an assistant to the Papal Secretary of State in 1925, thereafter became one of the Vatican's most useful U. S. prelates. He it was who rebroadcast in English the late Pope's first radio speech. He it was who, in 1931, smuggled out of Italy, by airplane, an anti-Fascist papal encyclical which was in danger of being suppressed. When the present Pope visited...