Word: rome
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Neville Chamberlain have been intimately corresponding for months (TIME, Aug. 9). It was clearly no accident that the Italian Premier suddenly agreed last week to a British scheme of July 14 which had seemed as dead as Queen Anne. Spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, on orders from Rome, brought the moribund Non-intervention Committee to life by making this "concession'' to the British last week in concert with the German Delegate, Dr. Ernst Woermann -for Adolf Hitler had also suddenly discovered that he no longer objects to the British scheme of July...
...yearning to communicate with other planets of the Pope's chief radio technician, and the number of bars in the Papal State (four) are all as familiar to Correspondent Morgan as the first names by which he called servants of the Holy Father during 18 years in Rome representing Associated Press, then United Press (TIME, Nov. n, 1935). He tells why voyaging midshipmen from the U. S. Naval Academy, when in Rome, invariably salute His Holiness with "nine 'NAVYS' and three 'HOLY FATHER...
These threats had little effect last week in Rome, where it is well known that the Cerbère-Portbou frontier was already open to everything that Leftists could pay cash for. Italy also feels that French and British public opinion -will not yet stand for open intervention. Instead Italy insisted on discussing recall of volunteers not at a three-power conference but before all 27 nations of the impotent Nonintervention Committee, including Italy's ally Germany. Britain and France were forced to agree. Lest this sound like too much of a blow to British prestige Foreign Secretary Anthony...
Hitler and Mussolini dislike the League of Nations but the suggestion of Horthy was believed in Budapest not to displease Berlin or Rome. His Serene Highness proposed that there be a European League, an Asiatic League and an American League -each to mind its own business. Anyone who knows Admiral Horthy is familiar with his sulphurous epithets for Stalin, and the Soviet Union-since two-thirds of its area is in Asia-would "naturally" belong only to his Asiatic League. The U. S. would be parked in the American League. Thus the European League would be chiefly a cozy corner...
Died. Alceo Dossena, 60, Italian sculptor who was "born 500 years too late"; of a brain hemorrhage; in Rome. Sculptor Dossena, regarded as a genius in his own right, gained fame by being so adept at copying old masters that he fooled experts. His copies were sold as genuine, brought more than...