Word: romes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mussolini was charged by the Madrid Defense Junta with having committed a slip tending to prove that Italians fighting in Spain are not "volunteers" as Rome maintains but Italian regulars. What Madrid claimed was a message from Il Duce flashed to Italian commanders in Spain which read : "Aboard the Pola on my way to Libya I have received your dispatches...
...Tell our legionnaires I am following their action hourly. . . . Mussolini." This drew prompt official denial from Rome where it was called "a fake, clumsy trick...
Mussolini's small-statured sovereign Vittorio Emanuele III canceled at Rome last week the Italian delegation headed by Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure...
Tuesday marked the useful end of the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee. At London Ambassador Grandi read the death sentence--that Italy will not withdraw her troops while the war continues, and Premier Mussolini threw the switch in a statement at Rome instructing editors that Italy will not permit the government forces to prevail. Such an attitude by one country makes impossible any attempt to check effectively the support others are giving to the war. Once it was hoped that the bloodshed in Spain could be lessened by the withdrawal of foreign soldiers, a hope now almost dead. There remains...
Arms for Venus (by Randolph Carter; Mary Hone, producer), elaborated from a tale by Petronius, deals with certain aspects of human frailty in the Rome of Emperor Nero's time. This provides Author Carter, who wrote the play while studying for a graduate degree at Harvard, with an opportunity to mix Roman and Christian mythology in such oaths as "I'll be Jove-damned...