Word: signoralli
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Between the lines of Signor Scialoja's bland pronouncement, diplomats read the disheartening truth that the world is not yet ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME...
...Vittorio Emanuele seized his pen and made several scatches upon a parchment which had been indorsed earlier in the week by Il Senato. His sprawling autograph placed in the hands of the Fascist Government a legal instrument so powerful that Signor Roberto De Vito, Senatorial reporter of the measure, felt obliged to explain that "it is not the Government's intention to use this law as a means of persecution, but to apply it with prudence and moderation...
...last week: "To the false democracy of bourgeois governments which met at Locarno, we Communists oppose the desire for peace of Soviet Russia, which is the only country in the world willing and ready to discuss the question of disarmament. . . . I laugh with those who laugh at Locarno!" While Signor Maffii "laughed," the Chamber ratified the Pacts by a solid Fascist vote, with the Aventine Opposition absent (TIME, Jan. 25) and only two Communists daring to vote contra-Locarno...
Roman Fascists buried their noses deep amid the pages of the ultra-Fascist news organ, L'Impero. When their heads tipped back to a normal angle, a great light shone in their eyes. Excited, they read to one another a creed just formulated by Signor Marinetti, so called "founder of futurism." It called upon loyal Fascists to profess openly their belief in the following tenets...
...Signor Marinetti further announced that as soon as possible he will create an organization to be known as "The Brenner Guard," which will promote the universal acceptance of his "Eight-barbed Brenner Creed...