Word: umbertos
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...Rome one night last week armored cars clattered through the streets to the Quirinal Palace and heavily armed carabinieri doubletimed to the piazza in front of Crown Prince Umberto's spreading, magnificent home. The common man ran for cover; he did not want to be caught in the middle of a shooting scrape. Actually there was no shooting: it was just more protection for Umberto after a series of antimonarchy demonstrations by the hotheaded, leftish Republican Youth Movement...
After nearly two months of hemming & hawing, Italy had a new Premier (Ferruccio Parri, a man of the North), and a new Government (representing six parties instead of four). Last week Premier Parri led his 20 Ministers into Rome's Quirinal Palace, where each swore before Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, the oath of fealty to the Crown, as decreed by the Allied authorities: ". . . on my honor . . . not to do anything before the convocation of the Constituent Assembly that in any way would prejudice the solution of the institution [i.e., monarchical] question...
...court withdrew for half an hour. When they returned, the president read out the sentence: "In the name of His Royal Highness Umberto di Savoia, Lieutenant General of the Realm, this court has found Peter Koch a traitor, guilty of collaboration with the enemy. ... It orders the sentence to be published in the official gazetteer and in the Roman press."' When the judge finished, Koch smiled. Newsmen crowded around him. He recognized acquaintances and some of his brother officers. Said Koch to TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi, whom he had interrogated while Rospigliosi was a political internee: "I am very...
...years the House of Savoy has stood divided by a polite but firm family feud. Last week the faction headed by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieut. General of the Realm, was enjoying a temporary upper hand over the faction represented by his 45-year-old playboy cousin, Prince Aimone di Savoia, Duke of Aosta...
...poker-hot letters of protest, from President Lorenzo Maroni of Rome's High Court of Justice and Public Prosecutor Mario Berlinguer, finally forced official notice of the uproar. After a meeting of the Cabinet, Umberto, acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy, had the pleasure of proclaiming that his polo-playing cousin had got the sack...