Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Since a root cause of war from which most surface causes spring is admittedly the pressure of increasing population, it is to the advantage of all nations to ease and curb this pressure wisely, lest haphazard blood-letting continue.* But in Rome, Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni cried last week...
Fascist masons toiled furiously, early in the week, to construct an imposing dais between the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum, with stones taken from the nearby Temple of Venus. As "the 2,680th? anniversary of Rome "dawned," the dais was spread with draperies of imperial red. Upon it were set gilded crowns and other trophies won in the wars of ancient Rome. Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud. Jove-like, he frowned upon the suffocating throngs. Awed, they were silent...
...procession passed before the Imperator of modern Rome. Black and brown troops from Tripoli, Eritrea and Somaliland stepped smartly. Green and white robed Meharis swooped in billowy formation, borne by swift camels. Savaris and Spahis wearing the bright colored burnoose curbed their desert steeds upon the cobblestones of Rome. Sixty thousand Fascist children marched with heads thrown back amid a surcharged silence more impressive than the wildest pandemonium...
Silence. Upon this triple holiday?at once "the Birthday of Rome," "Colonial Day" and "the Fascist Labor Day"?Premier Mussolini was expected by many a Fascist to make some striking and imperial pronouncement. Instead II Duce preserved a silence that was deafening...
What did it mean? The correspondents of all the great news agencies at Rome cabled that "a trustworthy source" had supplied them with tidings of a secret pact between Greece and Italy, said to envision the ousting of Turkey from her Aegean and Mediterranean possessions between Constantinople and the port of Adalia (east of Rhodes...