Word: vecchi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important Mussolini innovation was the creation of the Fascist Grand Council, a body of Fascist bigwigs. Permanent members now are Il Duce and the three surviving Quadrumvirs of the March on Rome-Italo Balbo, Marshal Emilio De Bono, Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi. (Michele Bianchi, the fourth, died in 1930.) Other members are the President of the Senate and 22 more, from Cabinet members to the commander-in-chief of the Fascist Militia...
Upshot of Father Tacchi-Venturi's spadework was a conference between Count Cesare de Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to the Holy See, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. After Count de Vecchi left, the Pope, Cardinal Pacelli and Father Tacchi-Venturi were closeted until late in the afternoon. Later His Holiness said: "We do not know whether a solution can be reached in a short or long time, but it certainly will be reached when the Lord wishes-that is to say, at the moment most suitable for the good of souls...
...Triumvirs remaining from the original Quadrumvirate are: General Emilio De Bono, Minister of Colonies; General Italo Balbo, Minister of Aviation; Count Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to Vatican City...