Word: savoyism
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...Quietly] Everything is being done to prove that there was a plot to revolt against the State. . . . That is a lie! ... I am loyal to the State and to the House of Savoy. . . . I alone sought to bring low this impostor, this Fascist! I hate Fascismo! I will always hate it! ... I wanted to restore the government of the State to my King by killing this impostor. . . . What more do you want? What more do you want? . . . I alone am guilty...
Significant is the fact that the present royal House of Savoy has reigned for only 66 years over all Italy. The Imperial as opposed to the merely Royal tradition dates from Augustus* (B.C. 63-A.D. 14), the first Roman Emperor. The Byzantine Emperors reigned over Italy from 476; the Frankish Emperors from 800; the German Emperors from 962. But during all this time Italy had been breaking up into petty kingdoms; and from the 9th Century to the 19th "Italy" lost its meaning as a political entity and became a region of separate states-some free cities, some republics, some...
...contra, the Royalists are championed by Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano, who cried recently at Milan: "All Fascists should wear two emblems close to their hearts: the cross of the {reigning} House of Savoy, and the fascio...
...President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after the Washington social season, the President...
...among us, amiably pretending to be a Tyrolese and speaking our peculiar dialect, just as he used to perform this same gracious gesture among all of his subject peoples. The Habsburgs left us more or less to ourselves; now the Allies have turned us over to the house of Savoy, although every municipal council in our whole territory requested the Peace conference not to annex us to Italy. As to our race, we call ourselves 'Tyrolese.' To the pan-Germans we are German; to the pan-Italians we are Italian. We are all three...