Word: savoyism
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...Martyrs. Periodically, the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Piedmont (the present Italian royal house) sent soldiers to exterminate them. The terrible Piedmont Easter massacre (1655) moved Oliver Cromwell to decree a public fast to show English sympathy for the Waldensians. Cromwell warned the Duke of Savoy that if such a thing happened again the British fleet would bombard Nice. The massacre also brought from John Milton his thunderous sonnet...
...family on ice for the duration." Carlo Sforza agreed with his old friend, Philosopher Benedetto Croce, who had told an American correspondent in southern Italy that the Royal Family was "ignoble." Said Carlo Sforza: "The greatest mistake of Allied policy is to support the discredited House of Savoy. An attempt by the Allies to force the monarchy on the nation, or to repair its prestige, will cause resentment and future trouble...
...barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King). It was the shame of the Savoy dynasty that Vittorio Emanuele III helped Fascismo destroy the democratic constitution his grandfather had upheld...
Died. Edward ("Eddie") Savoy, 88, longtime chief messenger of the U.S. State Department; in Washington. Tiny, tactful Negro Savoy became the Department's sentry-page six years after the Civil War, at his 1933 retirement had served 21 Secretaries as minister extraordinary to the entrances, hats, canes and confidences of the world's diplomatic great. Savoy-isms: "When I meet a man who is domineering to his inferiors, I know he is sycophantic to his superiors, and no gentleman"; on speaking the language of diplomacy successfully: "Never say what you want to say, and never say anything before...
Close on the train of Prince Henry, Luigi Amedo, Duke of the Abruzzi and Prince of Savoy, was granted the Doctor of Laws in 1907. His award was given in the same year that such American notables as James Bryee, Elihu Root, Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, and Woodrow Wilson were similarly honored by the University...