Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, having been sworn into their new offices in a mass ceremony, the junta prepared to present to the country a draft of the new constitution that it has been preparing. The King had been shown a copy in Rome, to which he had fled after the failure of his inept countercoup, and apparently he found it palatable. The junta has also promised to announce the date for a plebiscite on the constitution-another move that would enable the King to save face. The most probable route for the King's return now seems...
...honored by the Catholic Press Association as the year's outstanding American theological work, Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio recently denounced it as "openly heretical" on at least two counts. McKenzie retorted that Lucey should either withdraw his complaints or make formal charges of heresy to Rome...
That would be true even in Italy. Rome said not a word recently when the Italian publishing house of Mondadori published a collection of essays called Is God Dead? without any indication that the book had an imprimatur...
After reaching Rome, the King spent the day at the Greek embassy, then moved his family into the nearby villa of his cousin, Prince Henry of Hesse. While the royal ladies called in Rome Designer Federico Fourquet and ordered warmer clothes for the colder climate, King Constantine got on with what his father, Paul, once called the business of kingship. He refused to make any public statement, explained to friends that he was still "working to save my country." He made it plain that he would not under any circumstance abdicate, and that he as King still represented Greece...
...junta's civilian Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis stopped over in Rome on his return from the NATO meeting in Brussels to talk with the King. Not ignoring more lofty influences, the junta sent Archbishop Leronymos to reason with Constantine. There was some speculation that the King's sister, Princess Irene, might go back as a royal standin. But the King so far seemed disinclined to return, fearing that his position would be reduced still further to that of a mere figurehead. Even so, having failed in his open revolt against the junta, the King could yet decide that...