Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the evident purpose of creating a war psychosis. It is scandalous that a former head of the British Government like Lloyd George, who in view of his age should advise seriousness and prudence, in a recent speech tossed to his audience hare-brained figures. . . ." Urgent notes went to Rome inviting the Fascist Government to discuss "immediate" withdrawal of foreign volunteers at a three-power conference. Behind this were veiled Franco-British threats of force, varying from opening the Catalan frontier for munitions and volunteers from France, to matching Italian volunteers with similar detachments of the French regular army...
...Bruno, 20, reputedly soon got his hand in bombing Valencia, and in Rome friends of his mother said she had told them: "If I had not been at our country place I would have stopped Bruno from going. He telephoned through to say he was leaving for Spain at dawn and nothing I could...
...Vittorio, 21, explained in San Francisco last week. There his partner, Hal Roach, in the new Roach and Mussolini cinema producing firm R.A.M. (TIME, Oct. 4), was sued last week for $30,000 by Dr. Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini was to put in in the film capital was cut to seven after cinema trade papers carried full-page ads denouncing Vittorio Mussolini...
...Blackshirts! . . . The objectives of ... Italo-German friendship, consecrated by the Rome-Berlin axis . . . are close solidarity of the two revolutions, a rebirth of Europe and among the peoples Peace...
...Premier Mussolini got back to work in Rome this week his aides predicted he would reject, but not too brusquely, a cordial new British-French note in which these Great Powers were understood to propose that, in exchange firstly for granting Italy "full parity" with themselves to patrol the Mediterranean against pirates (TIME, Oct. 4), and secondly for extending "conditional belligerent rights" to Spain's Rightists and Leftists, Italy in return should agree to a scheme of withdrawing all volunteers now fighting in Spain. Neither Rome, Paris nor Britain seemed likely to take an adamant position...