Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingdom of Italy, Lord Perth, and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law (see cut). To a loudly cheering audience in his native Birmingham last week, the Prime Minister predicted that when the Anglo-Italian Treaty which Perth & Ciano have now negotiated in Rome is made public officially "It will be found that it is not the Prime Minister who has been fooled but it is the Socialists and Liberals who have fooled themselves...
...reliably reported content of the draft treaty as it stands today (subject to minor alterations before it is made public and offered for ratification in London and in Rome) was scooped last week by famed "Augur" (see p. 55). The regular press services soon afterward had it from highest British and Italian quarters. In general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative...
Megalopolis is Author Mumford's word for the 20th Century city. In its analysis he uses the Mendelian classification of biological traits into dominants and recessives, adds two other categories: survivals and mutations. In Rome the Christian Church was a mutation, in the medieval city a dominant, in the 17th Century capital a recessive, in the metropolis a survival. The pure industrial order was a dominant until about 1890, after which it became a recessive in the dominant metropolitan order, built on monopoly capitalism, credit finance, pecuniary prestige and the national culture of national advertising. "No human eye," says...
Last week Bishop Galen was visiting in Rome. Five days before the Austrian plebiscite (see p. 23), he was drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...
...Fogg is fortunate in having the models in the style of this particular artist, for Bernini was the foremost sculptor of his day. He was patronized by a series of Popes, filled Rome with examples of his architecture and sculpture, and he was employed by Charles I of England and Queen Christina of Sweden. He was also invited to France by Louis XIV to do a portrait bust, the fullest expression of the Baroque style in sculpture...