Word: rome
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Named Minister of Eire to the U. S. was Robert Brennan, the Eire legation's chargé d'affaires in Washington since Minister Michael MacWhite was transferred to Rome last March. In 1916 Minister Brennan was condemned to death for his potent activities in the abortive Sinn Fein rebellion, saved by a commutation few minutes before it was his turn to be shot...
...Rome, the Messaggero reported that the golden crown of deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, studded with 718 diamonds, had been placed on sale by a London jeweler for $2,500. "A great bargain at such a small price," exclaimed the Messaggero, "provided the diamonds are not made of glass...
French Corsica lies only a few miles from Italian Sardinia. Sardinian islanders always hear the gist of the speeches Corsican Campinchi makes on his native soil, and in Rome for some time he has been rated a menace by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda who last week could only construe the navy minister's remarks as an attack on the "uncontrolled power" of Benito Mussolini. Editor Gayda recently called M. Campinchia "renegade , Corsican" whose speeches are "the nefarious ravings of a sectarian madman with criminal leanings" and who writes "filthy prose, worthy only of a meeting of drunkards...
...squaring off once more at the Vatican, Mussolini caused his two sentences to be shrieked out in Italy's press. But to most Italians the cause of the battle was not immediately evident, would not be until their parish priests told them of it. With the exception of Rome's Catholic dailies, Italian newspapers had printed not a word of the Holy Father's views on racism...
Thirty-four years ago, an ardent young Russian girl named Angelica Balabanoff spoke at a Socialist meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was no new experience for her. She had left her comfortable, stuffy, middle-class home at 17; studied at Brussels, Berlin, Rome; joined the Italian Socialist Party; edited a women's paper. As a speaker she had been cheered by radicals and chased by reactionaries until she lost all self-consciousness on the platform. But during her speech at Lausanne, she was distracted by the most wretched-looking human being who had ever appeared in her audiences...