Word: visconti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Police Inspector Enrico Morazzini confirmed what he wrote to the court some days ago. Judge Maroni interrupted: "There is no need to read it out. The description of the tortures is too horrible for decent people to hear." Then it was the turn of Cinema Producer Count Luchino, Visconti di Modrone, a witness for the defense...
Four weeks ago, canny Giovanni Vis-conti-Venosta, Premier Bonomi's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, got tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote...
Italy declared herself in the war on Japan last week. The announcement was made by aging Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Giovanni Visconti-Venosta. The declaration meant little in a military...
...said, was merely capitalizing on a "strategic retreat" by an expeditionary force that had had the bad luck to run into dirty weather. To prove that everything was going "according to prearranged plan," General Ubaldo Soddu, who was rushed out last month to replace Commanding General Sebastiano Visconti Prasca, was upped last week from corps commander to Army commander and confirmed in his post...