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...first Fascist Parliament was opened in state by King Vittorio Emanuele III on the ninth anniversary of Italy's entry into the War, and was a great contrast to the ceremony of 1920 when Communists dominated the scene. On this occasion not a Communist nor a Socialist was seen, much less heard...
...Deputies, except three or four, appeared in full evening dress. One Deputy provoked convulsions of merriment by appearing in "tails" and yellow boots; one wore a black shirt. The appearance of the King was a signal for roof-lifting applause which was as loud as it was long. Vittorio Emanuele, dressed in the uniform of a general, took his seat upon a throne, erected under a canopy of red velvet, decorated with the Arms of Savoy in gold. Above and behind him were the Queen and the Princesses Mafalda and Giovanna, surrounded by their households. On either side...
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From the terraces of the Villa Savoia, on the outskirts of Rome, King Vittorio Emanuele, Queen Elena, Crown Prince Umberto, Princesses Malfalda and Maria watched a big fire, took many photographs. Next day they praised the courage of the firemen who put out the fire...
...diplomatic pen protested against the immigration cut as being an unjust discrimination against Italians. That was all. Diplomatic necessity had dictated that a note be written to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, but there was written into it Caetani's personal aristocratic restraint. His predecessor, Signor Vittorio Ricci, in a similar situation, once made a speech attacking the U. S. Congress in no uncertain terms. He went to Rome on a vacation which has not yet ended. Prince Gelasio's diplomacy is of a higher order and he merits the epithet of aristocratic diplomat, diplomatic aristocrat...