Word: umbertos
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...black-gowned judge of the Brabant Court of Assizes sat in his Brussels courthouse last week to try one Fernando de Rosa charged with attempting to assassinate Crown Prince Umberto of Italy during H. R. H.'s visite de fiancallies to his present wife Princess Mane Jose of Belgium last year (TIME...
During the visit, while sound cameras buzzed expectantly, Prince Umberto had arrived at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier to lay a wreath. Pistol Man de Rosa wiggled his way through surrounding guards, fired two ineffectual shots, was immediately knocked senseless. Almost as though he had expected the shots, Prince Umberto coolly proceeded with his wreath laying. The affair looked strange to reporters when it occurred. Last week as the trial progressed, it looked stranger still...
...rumor which Europe's political gossips insistently repeated last week was that fat Fernando had not really tried to kill Prince Umberto at all. Fernando de Rosa is obviously, admittedly an antiFascist, might have logically shot a Fascist prince, but many an Italian has heard that no one loathes Benito Mussolini more wholeheartedly than slender aristocratic Crown Prince Umberto. Thus the shooting might conceivably have been a fake, staged by friends of H. R. H. to increase his popularity in Italy before his wedding. Fat Fernando did his best to deny all such rumors on the witness stand last week...
...Last October Crown Prince Umberto gave the Fascist salute in public for the first time: on the balcony of the Royal Palace immediately after his return from Belgium. He neutralized this on his wedding day by standing rigidly at attention while the Royal March was played, turning his back, leaving the Palace balcony as the band blared Fascismo's Giovinezza...
15?Twenty-sixth birthday of Prince Umberto of Italy...