Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke (see p. 22). The world had expected him to speak for peace. He did so. But the Duce who had thundered at 20,000 Blackshirts at the cornerstoning of a new town outside Rome, who had stuck out his jaw and sounded off about almost every incident in Europe for 20 years- II Duce now spoke to 130 Fascist functionaries in a provincial capital, and limited himself to 600 words, 100 of which complained about attacks upon himself. The world lost interest; the pain in Warsaw seemed more severe than the heartaches of even the Duce...
...approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace (see p. 21); Japanese, signing an armistice with Russia, launching a new. offensive in China (see p. 24)-all these no less...
Italy. It was raining in Rome when news hit the city that Soviet troops were moving in on the rear of the Polish Armies. Quizzing citizens, U. S. correspondents met profound gloom, not from sympathy for Poles or hatred of Russia, but because Italy's precarious neutrality was threatened. Next week, asked Italians, would the Soviet Union claim Bessarabia that she lost to Rumania in World War I? Or the week after? What would Turkey do? Would she take what she had got from France and Great Britain and join Russia? Would there be an offer of peace...
...Paul Morand, one of those literary public servants upon whom public life in Europe so often devolves. Morand's academic background is his link with professorial "Soldier Premier" Daladier; he attended Oxford University and the Paris School of Political Science. He has served in France's London, Rome and Madrid embassies but never dabbled in the world trade which he will now help govern...
Although the mission were too humiliated to know it, they did serve a purpose. Their presence in Rome was the occasion for a realistic suggestion from Tokyo: Japan, Italy, Britain and France ought to repay the bad faith of their erstwhile friends, Germany and Russia, by banding together to end the Hitler-Stalin plot for "Bolshevization of the world." These wooden words were put in the mouth of poor old Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, the Chinese ventriloquist for Japanese policy...