Word: venezia
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...huge, high-ceilinged Renaissance offices in the Palazzo Venezia last week, Il Duce summoned and addressed the Directorate of Fascismo. The session was secret, but a summary of what Premier Mussolini said was issued. In substance he pictured Pope Pius as surrounded by a Vatican camarilla who concealed from His Holiness every fact favorable to Fascism and furthermore concealed from the Holy Father that Azione Cattolica was plotting against the State...
Relief. All Italy mobilized for the relief of the stricken district. From his desk in the red brick palazzo Venezia, Il Duce ordered to the stricken district five regiments, a squadron of observation planes, and his brand new Earthquake Relief Train. From the Vatican Pope Pius sent a special nuncio, Mgr. Spirito Chiapetta. Little King Vittorio Emanuele went himself, motored from village to village. Exhausted soldiers and rescue squads, grief-stricken peasants glimpsed a pair of bright eyes and the top of His Majesty's campaign cap as the car passed, were comforted...
Eight hundred prominent Fascisti, the acknowledged hierarchy of the Party, marched into the hoary Palazzo Venezia at Rome last week and furiously applauded Dictator Mussolini as he uttered more than honeyed words. "It is the simple truth," cried Il Duce, as he launched into his oration, "that the hierarchy of our Party is composed of honest men who deserve the esteem of the nation...
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, continued his pleasure cruise on the yacht Venezia. At Venice, Count Giuseppe Volpi, Italian Minister of Finance, suave, Vandyke-bearded, came on board. They-the richest men in politics in two nations-chatted quietly, shunned weighty subjects. Count Volpi made his fortune in trading companies, was once Governor of Tripoli, has (as Minister of Finance) raised the value of the lira and drawn up the Italian Debt Settlements...
Premier Benito Mussolini continued to dominate the Italian stage. Speaking to the assembled leaders of Fascismo in the Palazzo Venezia at Rome he made it clear that he would accept no aid from other Parties because the "National Fascista Party, on account of its origin, on account of its methods, on account of its ideals and on account of its experience since 1921, energetically refuses any electoral or political alliances." He did not object, however, to including "single men from other parties, provided that their past, especially during and after the War, or their eminent intellectual qualities, are such...