Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland has some 24,000,000 Roman Catholics, nearly 75% of its population. Like most east-European nations, it has also an autonomous Orthodox Church and a Greek Catholic or "Uniat" Church, in communion with Rome but using its own form of Mass. Poland's Ukrainians are about equally divided between the Orthodox and Uniat Churches, which have been so friendly that the Uniat Primate is also a leader of the Orthodox faithful. The Primate, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, Arch bishop of Lwow, is almost seven feet tall, but paralyzed in arms and legs so that he cannot preach. Instead...
...Iraqi proposal was only one of a number under consideration. Meanwhile, a British commission sent to the Holy Land to report on the workability of partition was laboriously drafting its conclusions, expected to reveal them in three weeks. In Rome, British Ambassador Lord Perth conferred with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano on several topics, one of which was reported to have been the possibility of diverting further Jewish emigration from Europe to Ethiopia, rather than Palestine...
...veterans, nearly every Jewish "old comrade" of the Dictator is now exempt from antiSemitism, as are several high Jewish officers in the Italian fighting forces, together with every Italian Jew who was sufficiently pro-Fascist to join the Party as late as two years after the March on Rome, or to volunteer right up to a few days ago to fight in Spain...
...Chvalkovsky has busied himself getting on the best personal terms with Herr Hitler and with Signor Mussolini, who is said to have once sent him this message in Rome: "Come over and see me, I am tired of talking to people who say 'Yes'." Dr. Chvalkovsky last week became the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, will handle many cards of a new deal for his country. He at once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter...
...Manhattan last week Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt went to the theatre two nights in succession. Of Sing Out the News, Harold Rome's pro-Roosevelt revue, she remarked: "It is rather kind to certain prominent political figures." At Lightnin' Playgoer Roosevelt went behind the scenes, congratulated Fred Stone, who plays the leading role. Grinned Actor Stone: "Thank you, dear...