Word: rome
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...ROME--Wednesday, December 14. It was learned reliably today that the Vatican considers that the Catholic church has reached a position in Germany of such gravity that "the worst is expected momentarily...
Although the Italian colonial demands on France are not likely to precipitate an immediate war crisis i Europe, this sudden irredentist campaign for Tunisia and Corsica gains added significance in its relation to the Rome-Berlin axis. That Mussolini should pick a fight with Paris at the very moment the Reich has signed a Franco-German Agreement indicates that the interests of the two dictators are diverging. As junior partner in the axis, Italy must rely more on German support than Germany on Italian support. Thus, while Mussolini had no choice but to swallow the distasteful Austrian "Anschluss," Hitler...
...your Year's men-the Chinese Generalissimo and the Emperor of Ethiopia-got the living bejesus beat out of 'em. Maybe the same jinx would catch Hitler. CHARLES B. WILLIAMS Rome...
...with a sleep between at the home of the President's crippled neighbor, Will Moore of New York, the two diplomats headed back for Washington. The press was told nothing of what they had told the President or he them. Ambassador Phillips said he would start back to Rome next week, which suggested that the President planned no crackdown on Dictator Mussolini. Ambassador Wilson said only that his stay in the U. S. should not be called "indefinite." The world press set a watch upon the comings & goings of Mrs. Wilson in Berlin. Should she sail...
Before falling ill last week the Pope turned his attention to another democratic nation, England. He appointed Monsignor William Godfrey, rector of the English College in Rome, to be Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain-the first representative of the Pope in Protestant Great Britain since the 16th Century. Not a diplomatic official like a Papal Nuncio, an Apostolic Delegate acts as liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy of a nation. Monsignor Godfrey will have access to the British Foreign Office, may well be able to report to the Pope, at firsthand, on Britain's dealings with Germany...