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Sixty-nine years ago, on a September day, the armies of Vittorio Emanuele II marched toward the gates of Rome. The city's weary old ruler, Pope Pius IX, ordered his Papal zouaves not to fire upon the invaders. He shut himself up in the Vatican, there to remain to the end of his days. The House of Savoy moved into the Quirinal, which had belonged to the Popes. Pius IX and four of his successors, unceasingly protesting their "despoliation," remained in voluntary imprisonment until the Lateran Treaties of 1929. They and their partisans - to Roman society, "Blacks...
Fortnight ago, Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena visited the Holy Father in the Vatican, as they had his predecessor. Last week the King bestowed the Supreme Order of Santissima Annunziata upon Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State. This decoration, which makes its owner an honorary "cousin of the King," has long been held by Pius XII. Next, the Holy Father gave Foreign Minister Count Ciano a moderately good decoration, the Order of the Golden Spur. The Vatican whispered that this week Il Duce is to pay a formal call on Il Papa (although the Pa lazzo Venezia...
Repudiating rumors that King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto opposed the Axis policy which might have carried Italy into war, the Foreign Minister said that on the contrary His Majesty and His Royal Highness, foreseeing this possibility, had "asked the privilege and honor of serving the country in arms." He warned Britain and France that "real peace" will be impossible to get if they insist on Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland regaining their independence. Nor will Italy, declared Ciano, attempt to create a Balkan Bloc. In a slap at the Allied blockade control he concluded: "Italy continues to follow...
...Cabled birthday greetings to one of his favorite rulers, King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy...
...that Friedrich Wilhelm had been "beheaded as a traitor"-he was seen going about the capital in his usual haunts -and it was presently rumored that the Fiihrer might decide to enthrone a likely candidate as Emperor and serve under this figurehead as Chancellor-as II Duce serves under Vittorio Emanuele III. Theory of this shift would be to save the faces of Allied statesmen who may want to deal with the Nazi regime but feel they cannot do so unless some disguise-however transparent-is arranged...