Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Young (the U.S. State Department) just happens to be standing on the sidelines as an American embassy employe when Mussolini makes his 1922 March on Rome. At the time, Diplomat Young is flirting with both Sylvia Sidney (the Militant Left) and Ann Richards (the International Set). An amiable, easygoing fellow, Robert doesn't instantly spot Mussolini as a menace to world peace. But Sylvia can see the big issues as quick as a flash. In fact, she is so shocked by Robert's hazy ideological thinking that she sorrowfully washes her hands of him. On the rebound...
...Marriage of Inconvenience. Campion, as a young Oxford scholar, pleased the great Queen Elizabeth by his Latin and his charm. He might have enjoyed a rich career in the newly established Church of England. Campion chose Rome and danger. He found it improbable, his biographer says with an English convert's zeal, "that the truth, hidden from the world for fifteen centuries, had suddenly been revealed in the last few years to a group of important Englishmen...
Promptly the King's henchmen gathered at the Quirinal, where Umberto had made his last farewells and was packing. The King apparently saw a chance, decided not to go-and royalist leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days...
Order & Death. But the Allies are still hundreds of miles away, south of Rome. The German Army arrives instead; Farkas hears its motorcycles and tanks roar into the village. "These wretched peasants," sighs the German colonel; "I am here to restore order." In spite of himself, Farkas is caught up in the troubles of the Italian Communist, and is swept to death in the "restoring" of order...
China, in the eyes of Rome, is thus no longer classed as a non-Christian country. Though only 3,300,000 (not quite 1%) of its people are Catholics, they outnumber Protestants 6-to-1, and the Vatican considers the Chinese to be unusually friendly toward missionary activity-even in Communist territory, where a million Catholics live...